/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

I'm a little slow and new to crochet is someone willing to help me make sense of this pattern?
I understand what stitches it's asking for and how to do them (chain and single crochet) but I don't understand where it's telling me to put them.
I just finished step 3/third photo which is 16 single crochet, and I don't understand what step 4/four photo is telling me to do. The instructions are
>*Ch 2, 1 sc into next stitch, repeat from * to end of round. (16 chain loops)
Is it telling me to do one chain into a stitch from my last row, "float" one chain stitch, and then do my next one into the next stitch from the previous row?