Recaps

Su Ming and his allies infiltrated Berit Manor to raid a Temple of Light stronghold, defeated its agents, and rescued a captive researcher. They escaped with documents as the manor burned, but an assassin’s attempt on Su Ming confirmed that he remained the enemy’s target.

• Mo Yuan and Zhimeng disguised their border crossing by first pretending to hunt, then concealed themselves and carried Su Ming’s group into Gray Ridge.
• After meeting Bowers at Berit Manor, Su Ming stayed outside to coordinate the raid while Zhimeng put the outer guards to sleep and Su Ming used radar to map the building.
• Ruixiuli, Bowers, Jielusi, and Zijin attacked the manor, while Su Ming supported them with grenade fire; most Temple of Light agents killed themselves rather than be captured.
• Zijin used an illusion and a trapped mango to catch an assassin who attacked Su Ming, but the assassin died by activating a magical brand before he could be questioned.
• The group recovered documents and rescued a researcher called Hechun, burned Berit Manor, and fled by dragon as goblins approached.
• As they escaped, Zijin pranked Jielusi and Ruixiuli with sour mangoes, while Su Ming received a sweet one.

Su Ming dealt with Quail’s uncertain identity, planned the Pansy’s magic-crystal defenses, and expanded Ruby Base’s translation, commercial, and mining operations. The chapter ended with Rupert coercing accountant Xiyabeite into supplying information about the Shrewd Gear Chamber of Commerce.

• Su Ming learned that Quail was Devila, Blue Peacock’s reclusive alchemist brother, and Zijin went to see whether Stacy could get information from him.
• Su Ming and his scholars found that the Pansy’s defensive refit required far more magic crystals than the market could supply, while Su Ming advanced translation projects and Zijin accepted the plan to identify Weiaoyasi as Pale New Words.
• Lan Mao spent his remaining savings on games at the Chicken Dinner Internet Cafe before a goblin offered him free food and a work subsidy at the Unexpected Treasure.
• Su Ming visited the mine after workers discovered a mafic intrusion and learned from Shiquan that they could keep digging for richer platinum-group-metal deposits.
• Rupert confronted accountant Xiyabeite with evidence of embezzlement and offered him five gold coins each month for information about the Shrewd Gear Chamber of Commerce.

Rupert uncovered evidence that the Shrewd Gear Chamber of Commerce had smuggled goblin rockets into Dragon Valley, prompting Su Ming to prepare Ruby Base against an attack. Zijin planned to use airtight evidence to raid the chamber’s headquarters in Gray Ridge, while Su Ming and Zijin ended the night sharing a quiet moment before encountering Stacy and her wary Newfoundland.

• Xiyabeite showed Rupert an unloading-fee voucher whose unusual amount indicated that eight overweight crates had been taken directly from a ship, and agreed to help investigate the Shrewd Gear Chamber of Commerce for ten times his initial payment.
• Rupert reported that the crates likely contained goblin alchemical rockets, and Su Ming, Zijin, and Newman discussed the threat they posed to Ruby Base’s chemical supplies.
• Su Ming made 14.5-millimeter ammunition and a sniper rifle, assigned Newman to improve the smokeless powder, and left him to test the bullets.
• Zijin planned to trace the smugglers and strengthen Dragon Gorge Port Customs, then raid the Shrewd Gear Chamber of Commerce’s headquarters in Gray Ridge once the evidence was conclusive.
• Su Ming and Zijin spoke about the possible war with the goblins and shared a brief, interrupted chance to walk together before they met Stacy struggling to lead a Newfoundland.

Zijin and Su Ming led a sweeping inspection for goblin weapons, but the search found only smuggled goods while Botuni’s team continued toward its planned ambush. As the dragons stood down for the evening, Hongyao spotted goblins in the woods and went to investigate.

• Zijin, Su Ming, and Bowers sent dragons and necromancers to inspect vehicles, cargo, and storage sites for illegally imported goblin weapons.
• Zijin fined smugglers and stopped a Blue Dragon from deliberately injuring offenders, while the inspection teams found no weapons and collected forty thousand gold coins in taxes and fines.
• A dragon team discovered humans and goblins soaking goods to inflate their weight, and Botuni’s men used the chaos to drown the caravan leaders who knew part of the operation’s secrets.
• Botuni led his soldiers toward the ambush site, where they planned to meet the weapons and technicians who had entered Dragon Valley by separate routes.
• Zijin ordered Black Dragons to patrol overnight, then flew toward the Central Court with Misaila and spoke with her about Zisu and Hyacinth.
• Hongyao spotted goblins in the woodland, led young dragons down to investigate, and told Zijin he might be late for the evening meeting.

Su Ming uncovered how Imperial Consort Samanya and Pope Augustus had used Aideluzi to conceal Janet’s parentage and deceive Zijin, then arranged genetic analysis to investigate the children’s biological father. As the Final Bone Mad Machines prepared for war with the goblins, Su Ming secured oil and produced TNT, while Zijin set out with war dragons for the goblin negotiations.

• Su Ming and Zijin questioned Aideluzi, who confessed that Samanya had ordered him to make Janet’s bloodline-deception spell permanent and that Pope Augustus had arranged his work.
• Aideluzi revealed that he did not know Janet’s biological father, and Su Ming and Zijin concluded that Katharine had been selected and given false heart symptoms as part of the deception.
• Su Ming summoned Magelaili, delayed foreign envoys including the Star Empire’s representative, and sent Stacy samples from Katharine, little Tuanzi, and Yise for DNA analysis to identify their father.
• Su Ming received five thousand tons of crude oil from the Naga Clan and oversaw the production of TNT at Ruby Base.
• Su Ming assigned selected necromancers to work as observers alongside dragons and ordered them to assemble for deployment.
• Zijin prepared more than a hundred war dragons for the goblin negotiations and arranged to meet Su Ming’s team in the wilds.

At the border negotiations, the dragons exposed the goblins’ provocations before witnesses while Su Ming mobilized forces for a planned offensive in fifteen days. On Earth, Su Ming learned that a rocket explosion had destroyed Sangzi Group satellites, and Jin Rongjia revealed the launch was bait to investigate the Jackal Organization’s attacks.

• An elderly Forest Dragon disrupted King Nilunke’s attempt to provoke the dragons and invited diplomats from other nations to witness the negotiations.
• Su Ming ordered the Second Bone Mechanized Combat Battalion and Dragon Court Guard toward the border, set a fifteen-day deadline for the offensive, and directed the elders to eliminate spy networks in Dragon Valley.
• Su Ming reviewed the DCS World combat training system and learned its dragon-themed skins had already recovered much of its development costs.
• Jin Rongjia told Su Ming that a Lighthouse rocket had exploded while carrying Sangzi Group satellites, including equipment intended to study the universe from a new perspective.
• Jin Rongjia explained that Sangzi Group had arranged the launch as bait to test whether the Jackal Organization’s Calamity Mark caused the accident, and planned further launches backed by insurance.

Rupert cracked down on an underground gathering while Su Ming prepared Dragon Court for war and learned that the goblins were about to attack. The chapter ended as Su Ming left the game to face the goblin force mobilizing at the East of the Ridge front.

• Rupert used the red dragon to arrest the organizers of an illegal gathering, fined the attendees, exposed the goblin informer, and sent the dragon after the mastermind.
• Xiyabeite gave Rupert evidence that four farms had concealed grain, and Rupert rewarded him before tempting him with a VIP trial card for the Chicken Dinner Internet Cafe.
• Newman inspected the Dwarf Kingdom's alchemical explosives, then Qingye brought Katharine and Silver Mask to the Dragon Court, where Katharine briefed Su Ming on the Divine Covenant Faction and the Plundering Clock.
• Grand Princess Janet and Archbishop McIntyre pressured King Nilunke to honor their war agreement; Nilunke had Babaluo killed and agreed to launch a cross-border attack at midnight.
• Su Ming and Zijin tested the updated combat simulation, where Zijin was repeatedly targeted by more disciplined dragon players.
• Su Ming noticed goblin troops moving supplies at the East of the Ridge front and told Zijin he could not play another round because a major operation was beginning.

Su Ming and Katharine launched a rocket strike and dragon raid against the goblin command center, but King Nilunke and the senior commanders escaped before they could be captured. The strike disrupted the goblin forces, enabling a counterattack and a pursuit into goblin territory under strict limits.

• Su Ming ordered thirty rockets to destroy the Dragon-Breaking Cone positions around the goblin command center, clearing the way for Katharine's fifty-dragon detachment.
• Katharine's dragons stormed the valley, but King Nilunke and the other senior commanders had fled before the attack began.
• Silver Mask learned from a surviving adjutant that Janet had detected Dragonborn with a glowing necklace and left with her guards; Katharine ordered Silver Mask to search goblin territory for the fugitives.
• The command center's collapse left the goblin third-wave assault without effective support, and the dragons inflicted heavy casualties as the goblins retreated.
• Gelie brought six hundred dragons to the battlefield, and Katharine sent them across the border to pursue the goblin remnants while Su Ming capped their pursuit at fifty kilometers.

Su Ming and Gelie confronted the cost of poor battlefield discipline after dragons ignored orders and suffered heavy losses, while Gelie used the incident to enforce unified command. As the forces prepared a general offensive against the goblins, Su Ming began seeking Xiwo’s help to deal with the Naga Clan.

• Su Ming learned that the Dragon-Breaking Cone relied on an expensive ground array and highly trained gunners, then received word that Hongyao and Qingfeng had led dragons past the pursuit limit toward a goblin supply depot.
• Gelie refused Su Ming’s request to recall the elders, and the dragon force attacked the guarded depot, where Dragon-Breaking Cones killed four dragons and seriously injured twelve others; a Final Bone Mad Machines observer also died.
• Gelie stripped Hongyao and Qingfeng of their elder positions, sentenced the dragons who had joined the attack to hard labor, and tore scales from himself as a pledge to bear responsibility for future disobedience.
• The dragon forces continued clearing goblin strongholds as Younier organized supplies, and Su Ming said the Dragon Claw Corps’ arrival in a week would mark the general offensive.
• Su Ming met Xiwo, gave him Javier’s Sky Punishment Staff, and asked him to assess underwater weapons and gather intelligence for a possible campaign against the Naga Clan.

Su Ming discussed combat equipment improvements with Jisu, then heard Katharine’s history and learned how her ties to Meiwu'er and King Xialike shaped her position. Back at Ruby Base, Su Ming advanced weapons production and examined Nirvana research while planning to draw the Divine Covenant Faction’s forces out of the Radiant Holy City.

• Su Ming and Jisu discussed adapting rockets and sensor-fuzed munitions to handle elite enemies with magical defenses and mobility.
• Katharine told Su Ming and Zijin about her childhood, her parents’ deaths, and how Meiwu'er became the father of her children before dying from the Sevenfold Poison.
• Katharine explained that King Xialike had made her empress partly to protect her and her son, and she agreed to contest his influence to pursue the Radiant Holy City without provoking an outright break with the Star Empire.
• At Ruby Base, Su Ming oversaw production of RDX and discovered that Stacy had been treating Quail by letting him spend time as a dog.
• Pulilade gave Su Ming the Nirvana project documents, which revealed that the process could transfer the dead into other people’s bodies; Su Ming ordered the team to study how to identify and disrupt Nirvana subjects.
• Su Ming learned that his agents had captured spies seeking Aideluzi and planned to use the Fate Manipulator as bait while preparing to lure the Divine Covenant Faction’s main forces out of the Radiant Holy City.

Su Ming and Katharine revised the campaign plan to seize goblin supplies and manpower, then the dragon forces launched their attack while Su Ming stayed at the frontline command post. He deployed autonomous Rainbow Drone Type I aircraft to provide a comprehensive view of the battlefield as the operation began.

• Su Ming, Katharine, Younier, and Can Xin discussed supply shortages and planned to capture goblin depots, transport beasts, and prisoners to support the campaign.
• Su Ming and Katharine adjusted the battle plan to target goblin supply routes, while staff warned that the goblins might be preparing underhanded tactics.
• Katharine and Bowers led dragon battalions across Gray Ridge, and Zijin joined the departing forces after Su Ming gave her red raspberries.
• Gelie stayed behind to protect the camp, while Su Ming remained at the command post instead of risking an encounter with assassins.
• Su Ming launched five autonomous Rainbow Drone Type I aircraft, which mapped allied and enemy positions and fed battlefield information to the command center.

Su Ming coordinated the Dragon Race’s assault positions and ordered a surprise bombing of the regrouping goblin army before its defenses were ready. The first fuel-air bombs devastated the goblin formations, and the assault continued as the goblin commander’s post was consumed by another blast.

• Su Ming established northern and southern bridgeheads with the First and Second Assault Regiments while dragons cleared landing zones and set up supply and medical facilities.
• After learning that the goblins were regrouping but the ground force was still thirty minutes away, Su Ming ordered the assault regiments to attack immediately and sent the main-combat necromancers ahead.
• One hundred dragons carried aerial bombs toward the goblin assembly area, with observers using tactical screens and independently selecting targets.
• The dragons dropped fuel-air bombs that detonated over the goblin positions, annihilating troops, equipment, and temporary defenses across the front.
• The goblin commander mistook the explosions for forbidden spells and watched repeated waves destroy his forces before the command post was swallowed by a fireball.

Su Ming's forces routed the goblin army, seized supply depots, and blocked routes through the rear while Katharine's battalion prepared an ambush near Sharp Gorge City. The chapter ended with goblin sentries unknowingly passing the hidden dragons and reporting that the road was safe.

• Su Ming ordered the Dragon Scale Corps to attack after the bombing shattered the goblin front, and dragons slaughtered the fleeing troops.
• Bowers's battalion captured goblin supply depots and raised fallen goblins as undead while the goblin command struggled to destroy its supplies.
• Zijin and Zhimeng blocked three transport routes behind the goblin lines, flooding one road, patrolling another, and destroying the mountain pass.
• The Final Bone Mad Machines' ground force advanced toward Sharp Gorge City as Katharine's first battalion hid along the route to intercept retreating goblins.
• Commander Xiuya ordered his force to keep moving toward Sharp Gorge City despite a missing sentry patrol, and Katharine's illusion let a second patrol pass her hidden dragons unnoticed.

Zijin and Zhimeng blocked a mountain pass while Zijin and her companions defeated a goblin general and his ambush squad. Across the battlefield, goblin elites tried to counterattack but fled when they spotted a coordinated dragon squad, while Commander Xiuya led the exhausted remnants toward Sharp Gorge City.

• Zhimeng collapsed the mountain roads and set confusion arrays as Zijin rested beside her, while fleeing goblins abandoned their equipment and pack beasts.
• Zijin attacked the goblin general with spells, but his ambush squad struck back; Zhimeng, Ruixiuli, and Jielusi helped defeat the attackers.
• The goblin general tried to flee, but Ruixiuli intercepted him, and the general killed himself after the battle was lost; Zijin reported his death to Su Ming.
• A group of goblin elites charged a dragon, who fled after recognizing them as an elite threat from training simulations, and the goblins scattered when five more dragons arrived.
• Commander Xiuya rode with the exhausted goblin remnants along a road fifteen kilometers outside Sharp Gorge City.

Katharine's dragons and the Final Bone Mad Machines routed a goblin army near Sharp Gorge City, then resupplied and prepared to advance. The allied force was left fifteen kilometers from the city, where Katharine ordered it to move at full speed.

• Xiuya learned that dragons had been spotted near Sharp Gorge City and worried that its second-line defenders could not withstand an attack.
• Katharine launched a dragon assault, using illusions to draw goblin counterfire before real dragons struck their positions.
• The Final Bone Mad Machines cut down fleeing goblins with machine guns, and Katharine's forces joined them to clear the battlefield without pursuing survivors.
• Rupert arrived with the supply convoy and watched the dragons resupply while medics treated three injured dragons.
• Katharine confirmed the goblins no longer posed an organized threat and ordered the troops to advance toward Sharp Gorge City.
• Katharine explained to Rupert that goblins' green skin came from eating Dragon-Repelling Vine, which gave them a stench dragons could not stand.

Katharine’s forces captured Sharp Gorge City with guided rockets, mortars, and dragon attacks, then began clearing the city and gathering prisoners. Su Ming halted the wider advance until support arrived and ordered that prisoners be spared, proposing to use them as laborers in difficult mines.

• Katharine’s force destroyed Sharp Gorge City’s alchemical guns and ballistae with guided rockets, then advanced while goblin defenders struggled to organize a response.
• Katharine ordered the Bone Model battle group to bombard the walls with mortars, while dragons dropped trees into the city and the mortars set the buildings ablaze with napalm and aluminum powder.
• The goblin defenders fled through the opened gates, and the dragons captured many while undead searched the burning city for remaining resistance.
• Katharine entered the captured city, gathered documents, and connected to Su Ming’s command network; Su Ming ordered the armies to pause their advances until supplies and auxiliary troops caught up.
• After commanders reported thousands of prisoners, Katharine and Can Xin discussed killing weaker goblins, but Su Ming forbade unauthorized slaughter and said the prisoners could work in harsh mineral deposits.

Katharine investigated the goblins’ Desecration plan while Qiluo and Tengxi caused chaos in Sharp Gorge City and accidentally exposed a separate Dragon Plague plot. The chapter ended with Qiluo signaling for help at Lake Watuke, where the goblins and Temple of Light bishops faced the arriving dragons and undead.

• Zijin told Su Ming that a captured goblin officer had revealed the secret plan codenamed Desecration, and Su Ming ordered the intelligence investigated.
• Katharine’s forces cleared Sharp Gorge City’s tunnels, captured its lord, and began sorting seized documents as Qiluo and Tengxi accidentally detonated goblin weapons and destroyed the headquarters.
• Su Ming and Katharine learned that goblins had poisoned their corpses with Dragon Plague Virus, and they ordered the bodies destroyed and exposed personnel and dragons quarantined.
• Qiluo and Tengxi left Sharp Gorge City, while necromancers discovered that goblin corpses had been stuffed with spices and the city lord revealed the poison trap.
• At Lake Watuke, goblins and Temple of Light bishops planted Pillars of Desecration in the waterways as Qiluo and Tengxi drifted into the area.
• Qiluo fled from the bishops and raised the Silver Moon Emblem, marking the hostiles as dragons and undead rushed toward the lake.

After the Desecration attack at Lake Watuke, Su Ming secured the contaminated water sources and continued the campaign against the goblins, using dragon forces to capture thousands of stragglers. With the front advancing smoothly, Zijin asked Su Ming to chat while she guarded the prisoners, but her attempt at casual conversation turned into a question about his new weapon.

• The archbishop was killed, the enemy survivors surrendered, and rescuers found Tengxi unharmed while Qiluo had suffered injuries.
• Su Ming learned that the goblins had used Desecration and ordered Stacy to investigate the contamination while exploring Nirvana as a way to control goblins rather than exterminate them.
• Su Ming deployed troops to guard water sources and ordered patrols and intelligence teams to investigate Desecration as the army advanced eastward.
• Zijin led dragons to the muddy riverbed, where tens of thousands of trapped goblins surrendered after she made an intimidating low pass and roared.
• While Zijin waited for auxiliary troops to take custody of the prisoners, she asked Su Ming to chat and then asked what his new weapon looked like.

Su Ming and his allies investigated the goblins’ Withered Blood Virus and Desecration Totems, uncovering evidence that linked the Plundering Clock to the Jackal Organization and the Eden Plane. As the war zone was reorganized and the next assault prepared, Su Ming returned to Ruby Base to address production problems with the army’s mortar shells.

• Stacy told Su Ming that the goblins had used only the original Withered Blood Virus, and Su Ming ordered prevention and treatment guidance distributed across the war zone.
• Stacy, Su Ming, and Zijin examined the Desecration Totems, identified oracle bone script on them, and arranged to study their energy circuits and bring the poles back for analysis.
• Su Ming reported the oracle bone script to Jin Rongjia, and they connected the Plundering Clock and the Jackal Organization to the Eden Plane while remaining puzzled by the evidence.
• The allied forces established the East of the Ridge War Zone Command under Katharine, reviewed casualties and logistics, and prepared roads, supplies, and prisoner transfers for the next operation.
• Su Ming left for Ruby Base with Mo Yuan and reviewed mortar failures, including misfires and dangerous double loading that the shells’ safety mechanisms had prevented from causing casualties.

Su Ming expanded Ruby Base’s production support, investigated defective mortar shells, and ordered publicity that credited rear-line workers for the victory in the East of the Ridge campaign. Meanwhile, the Church of the God of Light began the Deboning plan against him, Silver Mask tracked the goblin leadership, and Rupert watched dragons working at the Red Ridge mine.

• Su Ming inspected the Celestite Hydropower Station and planned an electromagnetic rail cannon to help launch satellites, then transferred equipment and spare parts to Ruby Base.
• Su Ming ordered production supervisors to investigate defects in twelve mortar shells and start a factory-wide quality inspection.
• Su Ming instructed the publicity team to report how Ruby Base’s production had supported the victory in the East of the Ridge campaign.
• After learning Su Ming had returned to Ruby Production Base, Princess Royal Janet and Archbishop McIntyre ordered the Dark Side Group to begin the Deboning plan.
• Silver Mask overheard Janet and McIntyre, confirmed that the goblin leadership was at Goldglint Fortress, and watched Janet’s party depart.
• At the Unexpected Treasure restaurant, Rupert secretly watched Lan Mao and another dragon discuss their mine work and employment subsidies.

Ruixiuli and Jielusi ambushed the bounty hunters, but the surviving enemies fought back with a coordinated counterattack and powerful group enhancements. Rupert revealed the warehouse’s machine-gun weapon and turned the battle around, leaving the marked survivors exposed to another barrage.

• Ruixiuli and Jielusi killed Wild Dog, and Jielusi detonated his soul to disrupt the bounty hunters’ spellcasters.
• Ruixiuli and Jielusi faced Kailesi’s team, whose members pretended to flee before launching a counterattack from the smoke.
• The dwarf shield guard fought off the undead knights until an elf mage froze them, while other necromancers joined the battle against the priest and Kailesi’s treants.
• Kailesi transformed with a strange badge, and a skeletal troll shaman and the priest strengthened the bounty hunters with team-wide enhancements.
• Rupert ordered the warehouse guns to fire, killing the dwarf and tearing through the druid’s wooden armor as a machine-gun-equipped Bone Model emerged.
• Jielusi marked the surviving bounty hunters with Forbidden Fruit Pact, and the warehouse gunner aimed another metal storm at them.

Ruixiuli and Jielusi helped Rupert’s team defeat a powerful bounty hunter squad, though three enemies escaped into the jungle and were later captured by dragons sent on an offline mission. Su Ming learned of the assassination attempt and the dragons’ new mission craze, then prepared for a busy day while Beianqi reminded him of another pending task.

• The Bone Model’s gunner killed the troll shaman, while Jielusi and Ruixiuli broke through the bounty hunters’ defenses and Ruixiuli killed the druid Kailesi.
• Jielusi and the necromancers killed the elf mage, but the halfling rogue, female warrior, and archer escaped; Rupert arranged for dragons to search for them.
• Ruixiuli took a patterned badge from Kailesi’s corpse, and he and Jielusi discussed whether Bay Owl might provide bones for a stronger weapon despite Ruixiuli’s past embarrassment.
• Rupert launched the dragons’ offline mission to capture the escaped bounty hunters, and the dragons caught all three after they raced to the mangrove forest.
• Su Ming read Rupert’s report, learned that the assassination attempt involved the Plundering Clock, and discussed the threat with Beianqi over breakfast.
• Su Ming prepared for a management meeting and a trip to Red Ridge Mine, while Beianqi reminded him that the new production line still needed an equipment list.

Su Ming tested robotic dogs in Red Ridge Mine and discovered a disguised mid-tier combat professional approaching him, prompting the dogs to kill the impostor. As invisible assassins rushed after him through the mine, Su Ming ordered suppressive fire and fled.

• Su Ming brought five robotic dogs underground to inspect the mine and gather data for improving its operations.
• Su Ming learned that the deepest working faces reached fifty degrees Celsius and warned Shiquan that the robots could overheat.
• A robotic dog became trapped on a slippery abandoned shaft, and a dwarven technician offered to climb down to help it.
• Su Ming used Silent Vision to detect that the technician moved with the skill of a mid-tier combat professional, so he activated the robotic dogs' guard mode and had them shoot him.
• After the technician died, Su Ming spotted invisible assassins closing in and ordered the robotic dogs to fire while he ran.

Su Ming fought off the Temple of Light assassins after an explosion trapped him in the mine, then confronted the last survivor, Nastaya. As water began pouring through the damaged rock, Nastaya revealed she had been stalling for time, leaving Su Ming uncertain what she was waiting for.

• Mo Yuan followed the gunfire into the mine, found the aftermath of the fighting, and was blocked when an assassin detonated explosives that collapsed the tunnel.
• Su Ming used a robot dog's 20 mm autocannon to kill three pursuing assassins in a narrow mining tunnel.
• Su Ming checked the robot dogs' combat logs and realized one assassin remained while Mo Yuan and the others tried to clear the collapsed passage.
• The last assassin, Nastaya, removed her mask and spoke with Su Ming, explaining that she had tried to kill him to protect the world from the changes his technology would bring.
• Su Ming rejected Nastaya's argument and noticed water surging through the damaged rock as she admitted she had been stalling and challenged him to guess what she was waiting for.

Jielusi oversaw the effort to rescue Su Ming from the collapsed mine while Su Ming fought the remaining assassin and the attackers’ bodies were destroyed. Zijin’s attempt to contact him through the White Bone Mark caused her powers to awaken, and Zhimeng reported seeing an eight-winged apparition that left Gelie demanding an explanation.

• Jielusi sealed off the Red Ridge mining district and allowed Suogelin Shizhen and the dwarven miners to help clear the passage under close supervision.
• Su Ming told Zijin that he had anticipated the assassin’s plan and was turning it against them as the assassins’ annihilation runes destroyed their bodies.
• Zijin modified the White Bone Mark to create a long-distance Magic Power channel, and Su Ming used it while he shot the third assassin.
• Su Ming’s spatial Magic Power began eroding Zijin’s elemental powers, but Zijin stabilized herself by awakening a sealed multicolored power.
• Zhimeng saw an eight-winged apparition appear behind Zijin and told Gelie, who realized the sight might not have been a dream and demanded to know what Zijin had done.