Chapter Summaries

Su Ming and Zijin considered settling their future base in Dragon Valley, where Zijin hoped to negotiate peace with the Dragon Race by abandoning her bone dragon form and claim to the throne. While their construction camp advanced despite illness and resource demands, Su Ming discovered that trainee number fourteen had been caught trying to escape.

• Zijin told Su Ming that Stacy’s plan could let her give up her bone dragon form, regain her affinity for four elements, and negotiate peace with the Dragon Race.
• Su Ming agreed that Dragon Valley would make a suitable base, but Zijin warned that Gelie and Yinfei would need to be brought to the negotiating table; after an awkward moment, she blasted Su Ming through the machine-room window and they prepared to fight.
• Several people in the First Construction Regiment’s camp developed altitude sickness, and Jielusi treated Younier with oxygen before Su Ming obtained acetazolamide for her.
• Su Ming’s team built the construction-site roof, prepared stone and concrete, sent workers to make charcoal, and installed power cables as tunnel construction progressed.
• Rupert reported that trainee number fourteen had escaped, but Su Ming revealed that the trainee had already been caught and ordered him interrogated.

Su Ming dealt with Trainee Number 14’s escape attempt by imposing punishments on his roommates and the entire First Construction Regiment, then used a concert to enforce discipline. Construction advanced with the first concrete pipe sections completed, and Newman reported that the pipe-jacking machine was ready to be transported.

• Rupert interrogated Trainee Number 14, who confessed to his crimes, and Su Ming ordered his public execution.
• Su Ming sentenced Number 14’s four roommates to cold-water punishment and ordered everyone else to run fourteen laps, but Jielusi intervened and Su Ming changed the punishment.
• Hansite, Newman, and Gospel performed a loud concert inside a soundproof barrier, waking the trainees and leaving them unusually obedient the next day.
• Su Ming and the construction crew produced the first ten precast concrete pipe sections, which passed his inspection.
• Newman told Su Ming on the third day that the pipe-jacking machine could be transported.

Su Ming and the other-world team began tunneling through the Dome Mountains with a magically enhanced boring machine, refining their process as they encountered difficult geology. After the tunnel reached 1,800 meters, Su Ming and Zijin shifted their attention to developing the Cloud Arrow 1000.

• Su Ming teleported a pipe-jacking boring machine to the tunnel site, where Newman and the workers installed it and used Transmute Rock to Mud to bore through hard rock.
• The team reorganized workers and equipment for nonstop excavation, and the tunnel reached its first 500-meter mark on the third day.
• Su Ming arranged for Qiluo to ferment wood and other scraps into alcohol, then the team adapted the boring system to pass through coal seams safely.
• By the end of the first week, the tunnel had reached 1,800 meters, where the team made pipe sections from excavated rubble and Zijin developed a spell that shortened concrete curing time.
• Su Ming and Zijin began working on the Cloud Arrow 1000, with ethanol from Qiluo's fermentation planned as the raw material for ethylene oxide fuel.

Su Ming learned to produce ethylene oxide with help from Dodder Group and the First Construction Regiment, while managing an attempted escape and the start of alcohol production. The chapter ended at the Sea of Divine Grace Academy, where Javier secretly arranged to obtain girls for the academy’s powerful young students.

• Su Ming and Zijin struggled to understand the chemical equipment, so Dodder Group set up a production line on site and guided Su Ming through making ethylene oxide.
• No. 28 admitted that he had tried to escape, then turned himself in after his companions refused to join him; Su Ming ordered an investigation into who had coerced him and considered a punishment of cold baths.
• Qiluo produced a first batch of fermented liquid, and Rupert suggested offering sweet potato wine to the First Construction Regiment in exchange for points.
• Zijin organized a local alchemical system to purify ethanol, and Su Ming began producing ethylene oxide using Dodder Group’s partial-oxidation process.
• At the Sea of Divine Grace Academy, Javier grew angry after Ruogejin disappeared and decided to write a secret letter arranging for girls to serve the academy’s privileged students.

Javier sent a letter to Warden Sabina while welcoming Archbishop Stanton, and Su Ming’s group planned how to attack Divine Might Prison by exploiting the Sacred Antelope Horn’s hidden weaknesses. Stanton secretly decoded Javier’s letter and obtained an original map of the prison dungeon, while Su Ming learned that its maze-like design was built to withstand unstable mountain terrain.

• Javier inspected the replacement personnel, including Stanton, then gave Stanton his encrypted letter for Warden Sabina.
• Stanton reached Divine Might Prison, secretly decoded Javier’s letter about potato suppliers, and learned from Yuya that the dungeon’s layout was difficult to navigate.
• Su Ming, Zijin, and Newman discussed the Sacred Antelope Horn and learned that simultaneous high-intensity attacks on three weak points could collapse its shield.
• Su Ming explained that their plan prioritized luring Hector the Radiant Chanter to the Sacred Mountain, even though that would make attacking Divine Might Prison harder.
• Newman prepared a small shield for testing explosive attacks and showed Su Ming plans of the prison dungeon’s irregular, multilayered layout.
• Stanton told Yuya he had brought the original designer’s map of the dungeon, while Newman explained that the prison’s unusual structure prevented foundation slippage.

Su Ming worked with Fengshou to plan precision strikes against the Sacred Antelope Horn, then continued learning to pilot fixed-wing drones despite his difficulty adapting to the controls. After he finally landed successfully, the aircraft’s landing gear broke, and he suspected Miao Xin’s growing Calamity Mark had caused it.

• Newman altered the prison blueprint to reveal a hidden chamber beneath the dormitory, while Zijin continued firing at the shield outside.
• Archbishop Stanton arranged for Yuya to stay in the basement and tipped a staff member to keep his own room on the first floor.
• Su Ming and Fengshou calculated that three precision-guided weapons with three-ton TNT yields could strike the Sacred Antelope Horn’s defenses simultaneously.
• Su Ming began fixed-wing drone training, where Miao Xin’s exceptional performance contrasted with his repeated crashes.
• After technicians adjusted the console for Su Ming’s black-and-white vision, he landed a drone successfully, but its landing gear later broke during taxiing.
• Su Ming suspected Miao Xin’s Calamity Mark had caused the failure, but she denied sabotaging his earlier flights.

Su Ming completed basic flight training while the tunnel project and supply runs progressed, then helped Zijin train her mental defenses with his spells and Qiluo’s seduction magic. Princess Dafulin arrived at Sheltered Valley and went straight to the tunnel site to confront Newman.

• Su Ming completed takeoff and landing procedures, and his instructor planned further training on a snowy runway with strong crosswinds.
• The Youth Civilization returned from Lorencia Volcano with supplies, while the tunnel project reached about 3,600 meters and opened a second relay point.
• Zijin asked Su Ming to train her mental resistance, and she improved at countering Grey Thoughts Exhaust the Heart while developing a spell that could attack without relying on her senses.
• Su Ming enlisted Qiluo to cast Moon Goddess: Lust on him and Zijin, allowing them to practice resisting powerful mental intrusion.
• The Youth Civilization brought Princess Dafulin to Sheltered Valley, where she headed to the tunnel site and confronted Newman.

After discovering strange scales on her chest, Zijin asked Su Ming to sequence the Plundering Clock’s DNA and compare it with samples from the First Construction Regiment. As the experiments began, Zijin secretly prepared her own DNA sample, wondering whether she was truly human.

• At the party, Zijin declined to sing, won a charades game, and wiped away a tear during the trainees’ play about a persecuted necromancer.
• After returning to her room, Zijin found four small scales below her collarbone and used Omniscience to check for other changes.
• Zijin asked Su Ming to help sequence the Plundering Clock’s DNA and collect human samples for comparison.
• In the laboratory, Zijin quickly processed the enemy samples and explained her expertise in biological genetics to a surprised Su Ming.
• After Su Ming left, Zijin sequenced samples from the First Construction Regiment, took a sample of her own hair, and wondered whether she was human.

Zijin’s sequencing confirmed that she and the First Construction Regiment shared human origins, while Su Ming prepared missiles for the planned strike on Divine Might Prison. The chapter ended with Yise confronting Su Ming at the camp and the onlookers urging them to fight.

• Zijin received sequencing results showing over 99.97% genetic similarity to the First Construction Regiment and continued testing the Plundering Clock’s samples while wondering about her scales.
• Hector arrived at Divine Might Prison with the Choir, approved using the coal mine as bait for the Plundering Clock, and revealed that he had also come to prepare for the Northern Lands religious purge.
• Javier told Sabina that Aideluzi had come to investigate Bulenleifu’s death, and Sabina agreed to ask him to look into the merchant Ruogejin.
• Su Ming inspected the Red Apricot missiles at Fengshou’s factory and discussed how to launch them without relying on alchemical explosives or wasting magic crystals.
• Katharine’s team arrived near Sheltered Valley, and Su Ming discovered that the woman he had mistaken for Katharine was her daughter, Yise.
• Yise challenged Su Ming over their past encounter, and the gathered trainees pressed them to fight as Su Ming tried to suggest moving somewhere more private.

Su Ming and Katharine finalized plans for an operation after the tunnel breakthrough, then launched a rescue of prisoners from the Dome Mountain coal mine. The rescuers freed prisoners and killed guards as Archbishop Stanton discovered signs of an infiltration and warned Warden Sabina.

• Su Ming sparred with Yise using shape-changing weapons until Katharine stopped the fight, then reviewed the operation and Gospel blueprints with her and Zijin.
• Benedict reported that the tunnel had broken through, and Su Ming declared that the operation had begun.
• Rupert, Hansite, and seven necromancers ambushed guards in the coal mine and guided prisoners through a hidden passage into the newly built tunnel, where Younier checked and supplied them.
• The necromancer squad continued through the mine, killing Divine Prison guards and rescuing prisoner groups under Su Ming's orders, while collars kept the seven offenders under control.
• Stanton told Sabina that he had found traces of infiltrators near the coal mine and suspected they had bypassed its guards and alert barriers.

After the Plundering Clock infiltrated Divine Might Prison, Su Ming launched four Red Apricot One missiles into the coal mine, causing a devastating thermobaric explosion that trapped Hector and the Choir underground. As Hector tried to escape with his surviving followers, Zijin arrived and sealed their spells, leaving them unable to continue digging.

• Sabina learned that most guards and patrols in the coal mine had gone missing, and Hector led the Choir into the tunnels to pursue the infiltrators.
• Rupert sent seven necromancers to delay the pursuers, but Hector’s group killed six and No. 118 died when his alchemical collar exploded.
• Su Ming used the Rainbow One drone to guide four Red Apricot One missiles into the mine, where their air-fuel warheads detonated and collapsed the upper tunnels.
• Hector survived the blast behind his Prismatic Wall Barrier, but at least half the Choir members died, and the survivors began clearing a way out.
• Zijin attacked the Choir members rescuing the trapped group and used Natural Rhythm to disable Hector’s Slumber Breath and Transmute Rock to Mud spells.

Star Sand launched a coordinated assault on the Divine Might Prison while Zijin formally named the refugee faction and rallied its followers. Red Apricot Missiles shattered the prison’s defenses and destroyed its rune-cannon emplacement as Star Sand charged in.

• Sabina and Javier recognized Ailisha at the coal mine, discovered that Northern Refugee Faction members had gathered outside the prison, and learned that all four long-distance communication relay points had been cut off.
• Su Ming launched four Red Apricot Missiles as Katharine led the Star Sand Assault Team against the Divine Might Prison.
• Zijin stayed at the coal mine to keep the Radiant Chanter and Choir from regrouping, then declared the faction’s official name as Star Sand and rallied its followers.
• Sabina and Javier debated whether to send a small force to look for Hector while the defenders continued losing ground at the coal mine.
• Three missiles struck the Sacred Antelope Horn’s defensive curtain, destroying the horn stele and dropping the prison’s shield as Star Sand charged.
• A fourth missile hit the rune-cannon emplacement and detonated, engulfing the area in a massive fireball.

Su Ming’s missile strike devastated Divine Might Prison’s defenses, prompting Katharine and the Star Sand members to launch an assault while avoiding further damage to the dungeon. As the battle spread, Javier discovered his former students were fighting against him, and Jielusi revealed that Yise had not gone to the dungeon alone.

• Su Ming assessed the blast damage and told Katharine to stop bombing because further strikes could destroy the dungeon.
• Katharine signaled the Star Sand members to charge, while Sabina ordered guards to bring out the prisoners and Javier rallied the Divine Grace Knights to defend the prison.
• Katharine and Sabina clashed with magic as the attackers and defenders fought across the prison grounds.
• Ge'enda'er and Silver Mask ambushed Javier, while Jielusi reinforced the Star Sand members and taunted him about his former students.
• Javier threatened the attackers with the prisoners’ lives after seeing Yise race toward the dungeon, but Ge'enda'er and Silver Mask kept attacking him, and Jielusi said someone else had gone there too.

Stanton and Yuya joined Katharine’s infiltrators in breaking prisoners out of Divine Might Prison as the assault escalated and the prison’s defenses collapsed. When Laswage confronted them, Yise appeared and attacked him with Star Radiance.

• Stanton reached Yuya’s room after the Sacred Antelope Horn was destroyed and the prison’s formation lost control of its Magic Power.
• Yuya and the four human infiltrators escaped through a hidden passage, and Stanton and Yuya followed them into the dungeon.
• Stanton and Yuya fought the guards while Stanton freed prisoners, but an explosion shattered the dungeon’s defenses and injured many captives.
• Laswage led armed Divine Prison Guards into the dungeon, forcing Stanton to face a dangerous opponent in close quarters.
• Yise appeared behind Laswage, and he accused her of betraying him before she attacked with Star Radiance.

Su Ming prepared an assault on Divine Might Prison to rescue nearly one thousand imprisoned necromancers, while Shitelike led the Divine Grace Knights toward the prison. Bowers and Hansite organized freed necromancers and Bearfolk warriors to intercept the knights as Su Ming’s forces prepared their weapons for battle.

• Shitelike received Javier’s order to support Divine Might Prison and led the first and second squads of Divine Grace Knights out, but necromancers and Bearfolk warriors blocked their route.
• Bowers, Newman, Gospel, and Hansite rallied the freed necromancers and Bearfolk with jokes and music as the Divine Grace Knights formed ranks below them.
• At Sheltered Valley, Su Ming’s forces mounted the final four Red Apricot Missiles, completing preparations for all twelve missiles.
• Su Ming recalled asking the First Construction Regiment trainees to join the attack, and more than a hundred necromancers stepped forward despite the danger.
• Su Ming told the trainees that they needed greater numbers and new technology, then removed their restraint rings and welcomed them to the Final Bone Mad Machines Guild.

The Final Bone Mad Machines defended their mountainside position as Shitelike led the Divine Grace Knights and alchemical beasts into battle. Newman and Hansite turned music into a powerful attack, leaving Shitelike shocked as the first charge collapsed.

• Bowers rallied the necromancers under the name Final Bone Mad Machines while Shitelike awakened two hundred alchemical beasts and ordered the Divine Grace Knights to attack.
• Newman's Bone-Style Self-Propelled Guns blasted several griffins from the sky, but the surviving knights and kodos continued charging uphill under the priests' enhancement spells.
• Newman activated an amplification array, Gospel played a thunderous rhythm, and Hansite began a song that struck the attackers physically and mentally.
• Hansite wove a charge command into his song, driving the bearmen down the slope to smash into the alchemical beasts and destroy nearly half the kodos.
• The necromancers followed with corrosion and negative-energy spells that brought down several enhanced knights, while Shitelike stared in disbelief at their counterattack.

Su Ming’s rear base came under attack by Aideluzi and his Battle Puppet Corps while the battle at Divine Might Prison intensified. At Divine Might Prison, Silver Mask, Ge'enda'er, and Jielusi confronted Javier, whose resentment toward their rise was revealed.

• Shitelike watched Hansite and the necromancers use coordinated glow-stick signals and music to unleash attacks that devastated his knights.
• Su Ming detected an approaching force at Sheltered Valley base, identified its leader as Aideluzi, and ordered the first squad of the Iron Crown Imperial Guard to defend the base while Ailisha continued her mission.
• Su Ming recruited Qiluo with a can of caviar and set out to meet the attackers.
• At Divine Might Prison, Javier broke Silver Mask’s mask and struck him with lightning, then blasted Jielusi away while Ge'enda'er fought beside them.
• Silver Mask dodged Javier’s Solar Flame rays with his sensitive eyes protected by cosmetic contact lenses, and Ge'enda'er and Silver Mask confronted Javier about how he had sabotaged their studies and prospects.
• Javier admitted he had wanted to ruin them and declared that they did not deserve to rank alongside the Divine Covenant Faction’s favored nobles.

Su Ming ambushed Aideluzi’s Azure Sky Battle Puppets with anti-air missiles, then led the Iron Crown Imperial Guard into battle against the survivors. Elsewhere, Yise continued fighting Laswage in the dungeon until he activated a rune-covered bronze medallion.

• Silver Mask condemned the methods used to protect the favored contract-holders, and Jielusi and Javier joined the renewed fight against Javier.
• Aideluzi confronted Su Ming and Qiluo outside Sheltered Valley, explaining that he had come from the Northern Lands to investigate Bulenleifu’s death.
• Su Ming disguised his intentions by claiming he had come to gather snow lotuses, but Aideluzi sent his battle puppets to attack.
• Su Ming launched anti-air missiles with continuous-rod warheads, destroying more than half of Aideluzi’s Azure Sky Battle Puppets.
• The Iron Crown Imperial Guard’s first squad charged the remaining puppets, and Su Ming prepared to fight Aideluzi.
• Yise fought Laswage in the dungeon passage until Laswage activated a glowing bronze medallion.

Yise and her companions faced released prisoners in the dungeon, while Katharine sent Ge'enda'er and Silver Mask to help and Jielusi stayed to confront Javier. Jielusi broke her magic collar and seized Javier, leaving them both badly injured and her control uncertain.

• Laswage released the Temple of Light prisoners from their restraint collars and ordered them to attack Yise and her companions.
• Yise used Eternal Echo to ask Katharine for help, and Katharine replied that reinforcements were coming.
• Katharine sent Ge'enda'er and Silver Mask to support Yise and told Jielusi to hold Javier off.
• Jielusi changed the plan, tore off her sealing collar, and took Javier's attack through her left shoulder.
• Jielusi gripped Javier by the throat and flooded him with clashing light and dark magic, while the same rampaging power damaged her.

Jielusi used the corrupted Shadow Form to tear Javier’s soul from his body, while Su Ming and Qiluo chased the fleeing Aideluzi across the battlefield. As Azure Sky Battle Puppets closed in, Su Ming prepared one final empowered attack before deciding whether to retreat.

• Jielusi drew power from the battlefield’s souls, spared her fallen companions, and used the Sky Punishment Staff to shred Javier’s soul until she collapsed.
• Su Ming rode Qiluo in pursuit of Aideluzi, who fled rather than fight and relied on his shields and mechanical wings to evade Su Ming’s attacks.
• Su Ming concluded that Aideluzi had to be stopped before he could reveal the attack on Divine Might Prison or retaliate, but his defenses remained difficult to overcome.
• More than a dozen Azure Sky Battle Puppets broke free of the Iron Crown Imperial Guard and began catching up with Su Ming and Qiluo.
• Su Ming activated Meteor’s Tear as Qiluo cast Moon’s Offering, boosting his Magic Power for one last attack.