King Vex agrees to help—for a price. You must steal the from the Coral Cartel’s undersea vault. The heist is a unique "escape race" where you drive through a collapsing sea tunnel while carrying a massive electromagnetic core that attracts every piece of scrap metal on the track. Enemies become projectiles. It’s chaos.

A new island appears on the map: . No cartels. No rules. Just a single, infinitely long straight track that descends into the Marianas Trench. And at the bottom, something with headlights is waiting.

Kai’s starting buggy is the : a repurposed dune rescue vehicle with a harpoon gun mounted on the hood. It’s slow, heavy, but tougher than anything the cartels build. The Campaign: 3 Chapters of Asphalt and Anarchy Chapter 1: The Coast of Rust (Tutorial & Early Game) You begin at the Sunburn Shores track. The Coral Cartel immediately spots you. Donna Manta sends her enforcer, Blowfish Brutus (a morbidly obese driver in a spiked, inflatable buggy), to eliminate you. The first major boss race is a "Demolition Derby on the Docks." You must pit Brutus into a shark-infested shipping container. Victory unlocks the Harpoon Boost : fire a harpoon into an opponent’s buggy, then hit NOS to drag yourself forward at their expense.

After the race, Old Man Tides reveals that Lani wasn’t just a racer—she was the creator of the Sunken Crown. She built it as a power source to clean the oceans. The cartel framed her for its theft.