Chapter Summaries

Su Ming expanded Ruby Base’s workforce and infrastructure plans, recruiting dragons to work off their internet-cafe debts while arranging mining and communications support. During a rainy break aboard the Pansy, he proposed a hydroelectric dam on the White River to supply power and improve transport, then started a co-op game with Zijin.

• Su Ming contracted Shiquan’s dwarven team to mine sulfur in the Red Ridge Mountains and planned to lease them electric mining equipment after Ruby Base’s power system became operational.
• Zijin sent indebted dragons to work at Ruby Base, and Su Ming established a dragon labor department to assign jobs and pay wages across construction sites.
• Elder Yin’er caught the Blue Dragon who had spread the free-trial rumor, and Su Ming offered to settle his punishment if he recruited fifty new paying customers.
• Su Ming reviewed drone survey data with Zijin and explained that limited rare materials meant only ten Dandelion base stations would be deployed for now, as they prioritized confronting the Divine Covenant Faction.
• After Zijin gave Su Ming scanned texts from the Dragon Race’s library, he proposed building a White River hydroelectric dam that would also create a reservoir and improve inland shipping.
• Su Ming and Zijin set aside work during the storm and began playing It Takes Two together aboard the Pansy.

Su Ming and Newman began building the Celestite Hydropower Station with dragon laborers, while Gelie agreed to fund roads and the dam for the Dragon Race. Su Ming then uncovered evidence that the Gray Ridge goblins had cheated Dragon Valley out of roughly 100,000 square kilometers, leaving Gelie furious but temporarily restrained by trade concerns.

• Bowers followed a mindless ghost made from the shattered soul of the Master Rank assassin after implanting the thoughts “mission accomplished” and “return immediately.”
• After the Bronzebeard reached Sapphire Port, Su Ming showed Newman the hydroelectric dam plans, and Newman estimated that dragons could finish the first two construction stages in about ten days.
• Zijin opened a second Chicken Dinner Internet Cafe branch at Ruby Base, introduced a points-based membership system, and used force to suppress dragons who protested its rules.
• Su Ming and Newman started the Celestite Hydropower Station with hundreds of dragon workers, while Su Ming promoted the project and Gelie agreed to give it a 500,000-gold subsidy in exchange for ownership of the dam.
• Su Ming showed Gelie survey data indicating that the Gray Ridge goblins had manipulated the old border maps and deprived Dragon Valley of about 100,000 square kilometers; Gelie agreed to delay retaliation until the busy trading period ended.
• Qiluo joined the agricultural and forestry chemical department to produce ethanol, while the paper mill and other industrial production lines entered construction and commissioning.

Su Ming expanded Ruby Base’s industrial capacity, completed the first major teleportations for the Celestite Hydropower Station, and helped close its dam, bringing the turbines online. As the base’s production and logistics grew, he also faced bounty hunters and investigated an anomalous deposit of low-grade Magic Power crystals.

• Zijin explained that Whispers of the Stars had enlarged Su Ming’s mental-power reserves faster than it increased his recovery rate, and warned him to let his power settle.
• Su Ming established electrical safety rules, strengthened Ruby Base’s defenses, reorganized the Final Bone Mad Machines, and sent Rupert to Dragon Gorge Port to build an intelligence network amid Zijin’s crackdown on corrupt port traders.
• Su Ming teleported a massive turbine and its generator into the Celestite Hydropower Station, while researchers on Earth recorded the information disturbances produced by the process.
• Su Ming learned that bounty hunters targeting his Temple of Light reward had infiltrated the base, and he told Ruixiuli that he would not explain the security gaps he had deliberately left open.
• Su Ming and the Gold Dragon elder uncovered a low-grade Magic Power crystal vein and arranged for ore samples to be sent to the Pansy; meanwhile, Ruby Base produced its first lead-acid batteries.
• Dragon King Gelie and nearly fifteen hundred dragons helped close the Celestite Hydropower Station’s preliminary dam, and rising water soon drove the turbines, supplying electricity to Ruby Base’s production lines.

Su Ming expanded Ruby Base’s industrial and logistical capacity, welcomed 1,400 necromancers and their families, and promised the base’s members that they would be free to reunite with their families after a future counterattack. Zijin agreed to consider moving the Dragon Court’s administrative center closer to Ruby Base, while Su Ming’s team prepared a photon-information experiment with Earth using a synchrotron radiation light source.

• Su Ming began training the Electricity-Swallowing Beast on the other world’s common language and received 1,400 necromancers and their families from Captain Hake at Sapphire Port, enrolling them as trainees and arranging schooling and apprenticeships for the children.
• Su Ming started nitric acid production using the power-intensive electric arc method, while Magelaili reported that most arrivals had agreed to stay and the remaining holdouts were being sent home.
• Zijin established plans for a Dragon Court-led Public Employment Association and later visited Su Ming, who admitted he was homesick and revealed that his promised six-month counterattack timetable was meant for the enemy to hear.
• Zijin agreed to consider moving the Dragon Court’s administrative center near Ruby Base, and the new rail line between Ruby Base and Sapphire Port opened, cutting the trip to a little over an hour.
• Su Ming joined Sangzi’s team for a photon-information transmission experiment at a new research center and discovered that its main equipment was a synchrotron radiation light source.

Su Ming and Sangzi confirmed that electron entanglement information could cross between Earth and Taya, opening a path toward interworld communication. As Su Ming advanced reforms, propaganda, and industrial projects, Bowers found a suspected Temple of Light outpost in goblin territory, and Su Ming assembled a team to raid it that night.

• Sangzi and Su Ming found that photon information could not be transferred, but an electron experiment later successfully carried entanglement correlations across worlds for one microsecond.
• Su Ming printed collected papers for Zijin, Stacy, and other scholars, then arranged artbooks and worker-focused stories to support reforms in Dragon Kingdom.
• Zijin and the dragon leadership expanded centralized administration, while dragons suppressed organizers behind widespread strikes and Su Ming’s stories spread among workers.
• Bowers tracked an assassin’s remnant ghost to a guarded manor in goblin territory and sent Su Ming an encrypted report identifying a suspected Temple of Light outpost.
• Su Ming inspected new smokeless-powder production and mining work, then invited Zijin, Jielusi, Ruixiuli, and Grand Elder Zhimeng to join a raid on the outpost.
• Zhimeng agreed to join the raid in exchange for a verdant-cyan, herb-scented version of Su Ming’s dragon scale-care wax.

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.