Recaps

Su Ming’s forces broke the goblin campaign through aerial attacks, captured cities, and a strike on Goldglint Fortress, where he forced King Nilunke and the goblin leadership into a reparations contract. As the army prepared to target the Divine Covenant Faction, assassins and signs of a new power around Zijin complicated the wider struggle.

• Katharine’s dragons destroyed the goblin command center’s defenses and routed the third-wave assault, while Silver Mask searched for Janet and Dragonborn.
• Su Ming and Katharine planned a campaign against goblin supply lines, and autonomous drones helped coordinate devastating bombings and dragon attacks that shattered the goblin front.
• Katharine’s forces captured Sharp Gorge City, where the allies discovered a Dragon Plague Virus trap and learned of the goblins’ Desecration scheme.
• Su Ming returned to Ruby Base as the Plundering Clock’s allies tried to assassinate him at Red Ridge Mine, but he killed the attackers and captured Nastaya after foiling her flooding and poison traps.
• Su Ming tightened security after learning that Baroque Shenyan had helped the assassins enter the mine, while Zijin’s sealed power awakened during their use of the White Bone Mark.
• Su Ming’s forces advanced by sea and land, destroyed goblin positions, and reached Goldglint Fortress as he and Zijin prepared a way to alter how goblin souls were linked to their bodies.
• Su Ming and his allies used the guardian god’s oracles to make King Nilunke and the goblin leaders accept a ten-year contract requiring tens of millions of gold coins in reparations.
• After Janet threatened Woden Plantation and the servants there were found dead, Su Ming left allies to maintain the deception and negotiations while the Final Bone Mad Machines prepared to strike the Divine Covenant Faction.

Su Ming and his allies upgraded Zijin’s White Bone Mark, then fought the enormous Crystal Dragon Jinghuo before it could reach the Celestite Dam. The dragon fell, Nitelai was captured, Death Knell escaped, and Su Ming and Zijin finally confessed their love as trouble broke out back at Ruby Base.

• Su Ming and his allies adapted the White Bone Mark to share its strain, while Zijin chose to preserve her bond with the bone dragon.
• Zijin and her allies destroyed Saint Lan Cathedral, framed Saxon for the bombing, and helped Katharine avoid punishment.
• Su Ming’s investigators uncovered the Temple of Light’s assassination plan, while he advanced the Vermilion Bow and supported Quail’s research.
• Janet betrayed McIntyre and revealed Jinghuo, a colossal crystal dragon, which emerged from the Hidden Dragon Mountain mine and headed for the Pomegranate mine.
• Su Ming launched missiles at Jinghuo, then prepared the Vermilion Bow and a giant undead Type 59 Modified to stop it.
• Su Ming and Zijin rewrote the White Bone Mark, awakening Zijin’s bone dragon body as the dragons welcomed her as their new Dragon King.
• Su Ming’s forces battered Jinghuo with missiles, rockets, and Vermilion Bow rounds, while Zijin and Gelie captured Nitelai and Death Knell escaped.
• Miao Xin fired the final shots that killed Jinghuo, Su Ming sealed off its remains from the dwarves, and he confessed his love to Zijin, who accepted him.

Su Ming maneuvered the Temple of Light and the Divine Covenant Faction into conflict while preparing his forces for war. The bombing of the Naga and the battle at Brown Gold Island exposed the Church’s corruption, but the Temple blamed Spirit Rain on Su Ming’s faction as unrest spread through its ranks.

• Puka offered the Temple of Light only one hundred Greatness pills a month unless it lifted the warrants against necromancers, while the Final Bone Mad Machines rescued fleeing necromancers and moved against the Seagull Chamber of Commerce.
• Su Ming continued developing Spirit Rain, investigated rocket disruptions caused by mirages, and prepared the Pansy, the H-6 WZ, and his forces for combat.
• Su Ming’s allies captured Naga attempting to sabotage the White River and discovered that King Xialike had likely hired them to steal super Crystal Dragon materials.
• Katharine declared Star Sand independent and launched a holy war against the Divine Covenant Faction, while Zijin exposed and defeated the traitors at Dawn Town.
• Su Ming lured the Temple fleet toward Brown Gold Island, then Miao Xin bombed the Naga army and Su Ming captured the Naga Queen.
• The Temple fleet attacked Brown Gold Island, but its Dragon-Breaking Cones malfunctioned and Su Ming’s necromancers sank three warships before Newman’s defense-array explosion covered the group’s escape.
• Havitron’s forces discovered documents about Spirit Rain, and Su Ming explained that his Shelling plan would exploit divisions between the Divine Covenant Faction and the Temple of Light.
• The Temple blamed Spirit Rain on the Final Bone Mad Machines and tried to silence Havitron, while evidence of kickbacks in the Dragon-Breaking Cone purchase further inflamed the soldiers and cardinals.

Su Ming exposed the Star Empire’s dealings, turned Xialike against the Temple of Light, and led a combined assault on the church’s stronghold. After defeating its armies and revealing the church’s crimes to the people, he left the Radiant Holy City exposed and Zijin poised to claim the defenders’ allegiance.

• Augustus tightened surveillance and supply controls after suspecting Su Ming had used goblins to undermine the Temple of Light, while Su Ming distributed Abin booklets among soldiers and ordered Janet tracked.
• Xialike’s officers identified Katharine’s deception and warned of Bay Owl’s abilities, as Kulandeer arrived in the Star Empire and joined Janet’s plans with the Plundering Clock.
• Su Ming’s forces attacked Janet’s hideout, but Death Knell escaped with the oracle scroll and Matiasu fled, and Zijin stopped the rescued servants’ Slave Shackles and Lilishan began sending messages in Janet’s name.
• Su Ming confronted Xialike with evidence of the Star Empire’s weapons sales and the White River bombing, then Xialike declared war on the Temple of Light and revealed Janet’s plea to Augustus.
• Su Ming’s fleet landed near the Radiant Holy City and drove off its coastal defenders, while electromagnetic shells and H-6 WZ strikes battered the city and Golden Autumn Island.
• Su Ming’s forces defeated the Sky Army and Divine Crown Knights Legion, captured the Merciful Radiance base, and uncovered evidence of the Divine Covenant Faction’s crimes against children.
• Su Ming rejected Bulameike’s surrender offer and used the Sky Curtain Project to show the Holy City the church’s abuses, Augustus’s affair, and Janet’s parentage.
• Fifteen electromagnetic shells and fifty-four missiles broke Angel's Protection, and Zijin flew over the wall and declared herself the true Holy Maiden as the defenders prostrated themselves.