Recaps

Li Yan, Flamme, Frieren, and Little Fool visited Serie at her castle, where Li Yan teased his grandmaster and promised to cook her favorite foods. He prepared a lavish dinner for everyone, leaving Serie delighted by his return and cooking.

• Flamme told Serie she had come to visit with Frieren, and Serie asked Frieren whether she had missed her grandmaster.
• Li Yan hugged Serie, introduced Little Fool as a Demon maid, and urged her to greet Serie.
• Li Yan teased Serie by calling her Grandma, then praised her as a beautiful and gentle big sister; Serie kicked him lightly and agreed to let him cook.
• Li Yan promised Serie hot-and-sour shredded potatoes, french fries, and fried chicken drumsticks, recalling how she had come to love his cooking.
• Li Yan prepared twenty-one dishes at Serie's castle, and Frieren happily sampled them while Serie tasted them with elegant restraint.

Li Yan spent a year at Grandmaster Serie’s castle developing mana-powered vehicles and expanding his Mechanical Magic Puppet workforce, until his research into a Mana Battle Car left him exhausted. Flamme put him to sleep while Frieren and Little Fool watched over him, and Flamme told Little Fool to report directly to her if Li Yan neglected rest again.

• On the seventh day, Serie tested the Golden Mana Motorcycle Li Yan built to her specifications, then returned his Black Lightning Motorcycle.
• After a month, Li Yan used a Magic Tome to learn how to direct Mechanical Magic Puppets and had his ten puppets build more.
• A year into Li Yan’s stay, three hundred Mechanical Magic Puppets worked throughout Serie’s remodeled castle and factory.
• Li Yan struggled to design a Mana Battle Car with defenses against powerful magic and an automatic Energy Shield, while Flamme encouraged him to take his time.
• Flamme let Li Yan rest with his head on her lap after Frieren had reported that he stayed up studying machines.
• Flamme told Little Fool to come directly to her if Li Yan failed to rest, while Frieren gently teased her sleeping senior brother before returning to study magic.

After waking from a nightmare in Flamme’s embrace, Li Yan eased his pressure to develop a magic tank and decided to strengthen his magical foundation by studying Serie’s library. He left Frieren sleeping and began reading an old tome, with the library’s dust needing attention.

• Flamme comforted Li Yan after he woke from a nightmare, and they slept together until morning.
• Li Yan decided to pause work on the magic tank and focus on studying magic instead.
• Li Yan told Serie that he could not solve the magic tank’s core problems, and Serie advised him to read more mechanical Magic Tomes.
• Li Yan found Frieren asleep in an awkward position, tucked her into bed, and left her to rest.
• Li Yan entered Serie’s dusty magic library and picked up an old tome about using Water Magic.

At twenty, Li Yan had expanded his magical studies and grown worried that Flamme would age and die while his immortality let him live on. After Serie said lifespan-extending magic did not exist, she suggested he search the Goddess’s magic or learn Eternal Statue Magic so he and Flamme could die together.

• Li Yan discovered tomes on fate-isolating magic, Flight Magic, and Curse Reversal Magic, then devoted himself to studying them.
• By age twenty, Li Yan had improved his Mechanical Magic Puppets and advanced in his studies, while Serie repeatedly defeated him in magical duels.
• After Li Yan stole Serie’s panties, Flamme pleaded for his life, and he noticed signs of age on her face.
• Li Yan asked Serie whether magic could extend a human’s lifespan, and she told him no such magic existed.
• Serie later brought Li Yan several Magic Tomes and suggested he look into the Goddess’s magic or learn Eternal Statue Magic with Flamme.

Li Yan learned about Eternal Statue and completed the Mana Battle Car after years of experiments. The successful vehicle was set to be furnished before Li Yan and Flamme traveled to the Royal Capital.

• Li Yan studied the Eternal Statue spell, which could seal a person in an unchanging state, and began learning it.
• Flamme invited Li Yan to travel with her to the Royal Capital to discuss the Mage Association with the King.
• Li Yan comforted Flamme about aging, and she hinted that the person she liked had not grown up yet.
• A Mechanical Magic Puppet experiment succeeded, completing the Mana Battle Car’s power-matching system.
• Li Yan tested the Mana Battle Car, confirmed it could reach 200 kilometers per hour, and ordered the Mechanical Magic Puppets to furnish it.

Li Yan showed Flamme, Serie, Frieren, and Little Fool the renovated Mana Battle Car and demonstrated its comfort, speed, and autonomous operation. As they traveled toward the Royal Capital, Flamme considered its military potential, while Li Yan explained its limits and suggested selling a cheaper version to nobles.

• Li Yan invited Flamme and the others aboard the Mana Battle Car to experience it for themselves.
• Serie settled onto the sofa, Frieren claimed the bed, and Li Yan activated autopilot to take them to the Royal Capital.
• The Mana Battle Car began traveling at high speed, impressing Serie and Flamme with its convenience compared with a carriage.
• Flamme warned Li Yan that the vehicle could change warfare, and Li Yan explained its mana demands and proposed a lower-cost model for nobles.
• Little Fool served Li Yan juice, while Serie reflected on her unusual behavior and noted that her mana had grown to nearly level fifty.

Li Yan and Flamme secured the King's support for establishing the Magic Continent Association, whose purpose would be to bring mages together to study magic rather than develop weapons. Afterward, Li Yan worried that Flamme would remain in the Royal Capital to run the association and no longer have time to accompany him.

• During the journey to the Royal Capital, Frieren dealt with Monsters while Li Yan drove through Demon squads, and Serie questioned Little Fool about her lack of concern for Demons.
• At the palace, Li Yan left Little Fool, Frieren, and Serie in a resting area while he and Flamme went to meet the King.
• Flamme proposed that the Magic Continent Association unite mages and promote the study of magic instead of creating weapons for war.
• The King approved Flamme's proposal, promised a decree supporting magic and the association, and discussed the terms with her for half an hour.
• After leaving the palace, Li Yan asked whether Flamme would stay in the Royal Capital, and she realized he was troubled that she would have less time for him.

Li Yan parted from Flamme and Frieren at the Royal Capital after Flamme stayed behind to pursue her wish, and he traveled back with Serie. On the road, a powerful Demon used thick fog to stop the Mana Battle Car, and Li Yan ordered Little Fool to attack.

• Flamme told Li Yan he had grown up and could remain with Serie, then revealed that the person she had once liked was Li Yan.
• Li Yan left the Royal Capital with Serie, while Flamme and Frieren stayed behind; Frieren learned that Li Yan was sad because he would miss them.
• Li Yan drove the Mana Battle Car through the countryside, using Little Fool to fight Monsters and running over Demons himself.
• A powerful Demon shrouded the forest in fog, forcing Li Yan to stop the Mana Battle Car and confront him.
• The Demon tried to recruit Little Fool and mocked her for playing with her food, so Li Yan told her to kill the Demon and his soldiers.

Li Yan and Little Fool fought Uldis, a Demon who used thick fog to ambush them and mistook the Restraining Chains for the reason Little Fool obeyed. Little Fool remained loyal after Uldis broke the chains, and the battle continued as they faced his hidden attacks.

• A short-haired Demon spotted the Restraining Chains around Little Fool’s neck, then attacked them and broke them while urging her to join him.
• Li Yan ordered Little Fool to kill the short-haired Demon, and she struck him hard despite being freed from the chains.
• The Demon identified himself as Uldis of the Seven Sages of Destruction and concealed himself and the forest in thick fog.
• Li Yan defended himself from a Demon soldier’s saber attack with Ice Shield, then killed the soldier with ice spears.
• Little Fool attacked Demon soldiers she detected in the fog, while Li Yan prepared to use Wind Magic to clear it.
• Little Fool spotted a silent hand of fog behind Li Yan and cut it apart with a mana greatsword.

Li Yan fought Uldis, who concealed himself in a fog that spawned Monsters and Mist Shades, while Little Fool and then Serie helped expose his tactics. Serie dispelled the fog across the forest, leaving Uldis and the hidden Demon Soldiers visible to Li Yan.

• Little Fool used a Violent Tornado to clear a small area of fog, allowing Li Yan to kill the Demon Soldiers around him with the Holy Sword.
• Li Yan used Storm and Mana Detection Magic to locate a Demon Soldier, then struck with enough force to fell ancient trees, but Uldis escaped his next attack.
• Serie explained that Uldis’s Core Magic created Mist Shades that could mimic him and vanish when attacked.
• Serie unleashed a massive Storm Tornado that dispelled the fog covering the forest and exposed Uldis and the Demon Soldiers.
• Uldis asked Serie who she was after sensing her powerful Mana, and Serie judged his strength with contempt.

Serie fought Uldis and drove him into retreat, then Li Yan pursued and defeated him with the Holy Sword. Li Yan promised to spare Uldis if he revealed which human mage the Demon King had ordered him to kill, and Uldis began to hope he could survive.

• Serie blocked Li Yan from reaching Uldis and attacked the Demon Sage with Dispersal Magic.
• Uldis used Hand of Mist and Mist Behemoth, but Serie destroyed his attacks and he fled.
• Serie left Uldis to Li Yan, who cut through his Hand of Mist and severed both his legs with the Holy Sword.
• Li Yan demanded to know why Uldis had led Demon Soldiers toward the Royal Capital, and Uldis revealed that the Demon King had sent him to kill a human mage.
• Li Yan, calling himself Frieren, promised not to kill Uldis if he gave the mage's name and swore that his village would be struck down if he was lying.

Li Yan learned that the Demon King had ordered Uldis to assassinate Flamme, but kept the warning from Serie and continued their journey. After three days, Li Yan, Serie, and Little Fool returned safely to Serie’s residence.

• Uldis confessed that the Demon King had ordered him to assassinate Flamme, and Li Yan killed him.
• Li Yan chose not to tell Serie about the assassination plot because he feared she would take Flamme away from the Kingdom.
• Li Yan and Serie traveled in the Mana Battle Car while he worried that the Demons might send a stronger assassin after Flamme.
• Li Yan woke after dreaming of music and found Serie’s stockinged foot in his arms, then washed up and prepared to exercise.
• After three days of travel, Li Yan, Serie, and Little Fool arrived safely at Serie’s castle.

Li Yan left Serie’s home and returned to the Lionheart Earl Territory, where he planned to arrange mass production of Mana Battle Cars. After learning how his earlier inventions had transformed the territory’s economy, he realized the Family saw him as a source of wealth and proposed the Mana Battle Car as its next major venture.

• Li Yan left Serie’s home with Little Fool, while Serie watched him depart and was left alone in her castle.
• On the journey, Li Yan rescued villages attacked by Demons and resolved to help build a force to protect humanity.
• Li Yan returned to the Lionheart Earl Territory, where Lionheart Earl welcomed him and told him to begin learning the territory’s affairs.
• Li Yan reviewed the territory’s accounts and learned that his clothing, Holy Sword replicas, Mana Bicycles, and Motorcycles had greatly increased its prosperity.
• Li Yan told the steward that the Simplified Mana Battle Car could serve nobles and transport soldiers, making it his next major business venture.

Li Yan shared the simplified Mana Battle Car blueprints with the dwarf craftsmen and explained how it worked. At dinner, his parents pressed him about marriage, and the chapter left him back in his room after Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue asked to accompany him on his next trip.

• Li Yan gave the dwarf craftsmen the Mana Battle Car blueprints and explained its principles after their questions impressed him.
• At dinner, the Lionheart Earl asked Li Yan to teach his younger brother swordsmanship and urged him to attend noble gatherings to find a wife.
• Li Yan said he had already met a woman he liked, and his parents eagerly asked him to bring her home.
• Li Yan thought of Flamme, his godmother, but could not tell his parents who she was and instead invented stories about their time together.
• Back in his room, Li Yan agreed to take Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue with him when he next left.

Li Yan left the Lionheart Earl’s territory for the Royal Capital with Xiao Wu, Xiao Xue, and Little Fool, then stopped in a village for the night. The group settled into the Mana Battle Car, where the maids cooked and cared for Li Yan.

• The Lionheart Earl asked Li Yan to have his master establish a Magic Continent Association in their territory, and Li Yan departed for the Royal Capital with Xiao Wu, Xiao Xue, and Little Fool.
• Li Yan’s family said goodbye, and the countess urged him to bring home the woman he liked, leaving him worried about her reaction to his feelings for her best friend.
• At dusk, Li Yan stopped in a village and politely asked the old village chief to let them rest in an open spot overnight.
• Li Yan and his companions chatted with the villagers while Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue exchanged stories with the village girls, and Little Fool listened quietly.
• The group returned to the Mana Battle Car, where Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue prepared dinner as Little Fool watched and Li Yan studied a Space Magic Tome.
• After dinner, Xiao Wu massaged Li Yan while Xiao Xue cleaned up and Little Fool massaged his legs.

Li Yan interrupted his midnight bath to defend a village from a monster attack, rescuing a child and wiping out the horde with powerful magic. In the morning, the grateful villagers surrounded his Mana Battle Car to thank him for saving their lives.

• Li Yan heard monsters attacking the village and told Little Fool to protect Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue while he went outside.
• Li Yan rescued a five-year-old girl from a monster and returned her to her mother.
• Li Yan fought off the attacking monsters with Flame Ray and Thunder of Destruction, then destroyed the remaining horde with hellfire.
• In the morning, villagers gathered around Li Yan’s Mana Battle Car with flowers and gifts to thank him for saving them.

Li Yan left the village he had helped save and traveled to the Royal Capital, where he visited Flamme at the Magic Continent Association. He warned her that Uldis had been sent by the Demon King to assassinate her, but Flamme dismissed the danger and pulled him onto her lap.

• A little girl gave Li Yan flowers, and he departed with gifts from the grateful villagers while Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue praised him aboard the Mana Battle Car.
• After three days of travel, Li Yan arrived in the Royal Capital and entered the Magic Continent Association, where staff escorted him to Flamme.
• Li Yan told Flamme that he had encountered Uldis of the Seven Sages of Destruction, who said the Demon King had ordered him to assassinate her.
• Flamme mistakenly focused on Li Yan's inability to detect Uldis through fog magic, then assured him she had nothing to fear with him around.
• Flamme pulled Li Yan onto her lap and told him to sit there because the office had no chair.

Li Yan reunited with Flamme and discussed protecting settlements with barrier magic, while Frieren joined their lesson on sealing spells. He struggled with Flamme's new disciples and missed having her to himself; the chapter ended with Frieren telling him Flamme was too busy to teach them that evening.

• Li Yan asked Flamme about her work and suggested researching barrier magic to protect villages and towns from Demons and Monsters.
• Frieren joined Li Yan and Flamme, and Flamme explained the principles of a sealing spell to both students.
• Flamme introduced Li Yan to her new disciples, but he did not consider them fellow disciples like Frieren.
• Frieren showed Li Yan his furnished room, and he brought Xiao Wu, Xiao Xue, and Little Fool to stay with him.
• Li Yan hurried to answer a knock at dinner, but Frieren told him Flamme was busy and could only teach them magic later.

Li Yan shared dinner with Frieren, introduced her to Xiao Wu, Xiao Xue, and Little Fool, and teased her about her interest in maids. On his seventh day at the Magic Continent Association, he reflected on the Royal Capital's defenses and relaxed with his maids while practicing Space Magic.

• Li Yan invited Frieren to share his food, and she ate greedily while he wiped grease from her mouth.
• Frieren asked about Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue, then hinted that maids could serve their master, prompting Li Yan to tap her on the head.
• Frieren returned to her Magic Tome and privately resolved to find a way to counter Li Yan's Space Magic.
• On his seventh day at the Magic Continent Association, Li Yan watched aspiring mages arrive and noted that Godmother was busy researching barriers and teaching Royal Family disciples.
• Li Yan considered how the Royal Capital's gathered mages could repel the Demons, then lounged with his head on Xiao Xue's legs and asked Little Fool to bring him juice.

Li Yan spent his first two months at the Magic Continent Association training while Flamme developed protective barrier magic and the association celebrated its growth with a rookie mage tournament. At the tournament, Xigeli asked to wager for Li Yan’s maid, and Li Yan faced his insolent junior brother with barely restrained anger.

• Li Yan grew frustrated with studying the Space Magic Tome and focused instead on intense physical training while Flamme worked on her research.
• Flamme improved barrier magic until it could protect a small town for a month, and mages began spreading it to villages across the Kingdom.
• The Magic Continent Association held a rookie mage tournament as it prepared to open branches in other regions, with Flamme, Li Yan, and Frieren attending.
• Xigeli approached Li Yan and proposed betting maids, explaining that he wanted to borrow Li Yan’s maid because he found her attractive.
• Li Yan became furious when Xigeli insisted he was serious and offered his own maid as part of the wager.

Li Yan lured Xigeli out at night under the pretense of taking him flying, after deciding to kill him for his vulgar behavior and his interest in Little Fool. He teleported Xigeli ten thousand meters into the air and left him there, shouting excitedly.

• At the arena, Xigeli bragged about his exploits and suggested bringing his maids along to enjoy flying, while Li Yan resolved to kill him.
• After the competition, Xigeli ogled Little Fool and expressed regret that he could not enjoy himself with her.
• Li Yan told Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue to stay home and conceal that he had gone out.
• Outside the Magic Continent Association, Xigeli asked Li Yan to take Little Fool for himself, and Li Yan teleported the group outside the Royal Capital.
• Li Yan teleported Xigeli ten thousand meters into the air, then teleported away and left him alone there.

Li Yan had Little Fool kill Xigeli and bury him separately from the maids, then returned home to find Flamme and Frieren waiting. Flamme noticed the smell of blood on Li Yan and questioned his excuses, leaving him panicked and Frieren watching their exchange.

• Li Yan ordered Little Fool to bury the murdered maids and catch Xigeli with mana swords when he fell from the sky.
• Little Fool pierced Xigeli’s defenses and killed him, then buried him in a separate pit from the maids.
• Li Yan returned home and found Flamme and Frieren in the living room.
• Flamme smoothed Li Yan’s hair, smelled blood on his clothes, and asked where he had been.
• Li Yan claimed he had killed Monsters, but Flamme doubted him while Frieren put down her Magic Tome to watch.

After Li Yan admitted that he had killed Xigeli, Flamme warned him that the Tiger Roar Earl would seek revenge and urged him to leave the Royal Capital to find his father. Li Yan set out knowing he might have to help the Lionheart Earl strike first.

• Li Yan told Flamme that he had killed Xigeli for insulting Little Fool and tarnishing Flamme’s reputation.
• Flamme explained that Xigeli was the Tiger Roar Earl’s only remaining hope of continuing his family’s bloodline and that she had taken him as a disciple for political reasons.
• Li Yan assured Flamme that he had hidden the body and covered his tracks, but she warned that witnesses and Xigeli’s guards could make him a suspect.
• Flamme told Li Yan to leave the Royal Capital and seek his father, the Lionheart Earl, because the Tiger Roar Earl might kill everyone he suspected.
• Flamme advised Li Yan to rely on the Lionheart Earl’s Legion rather than the King and to prepare for a decisive fight against the Tiger Roar Earl.

After killing Xigeli, Li Yan fled the Royal Capital toward the Lionheart Earl's territory while Flamme considered how to protect him and worried about his Demon maid. Soldiers sent by the Tiger Roar Earl tried to stop Li Yan, but he drove through their blockade in the Mana Battle Car.

• Flamme prepared to warn the Lionheart Earl and considered sacrificing the Tiger Roar Earl, while Frieren asked why Li Yan had killed Xigeli.
• Flamme explained that Li Yan's Demon maid worked hard to imitate human behavior to please him, though she feared Demons might think differently from humans.
• Two masked men learned that Xigeli had disappeared after leaving with Li Yan, and one hurried away fearing the consequences.
• On his second day out of the Royal Capital, Li Yan encountered a third squad of soldiers sent by the Tiger Roar Earl to block his road.
• Li Yan activated mana burst mode and drove the Mana Battle Car through the soldiers, escaping their crossbows and magic.

The Lionheart Earl decided to send the Lionheart Legion to protect Li Yan and prepare for conflict with the Tiger Roar Earl. As Li Yan fled the Tiger Roar Earl’s soldiers, the legion arrived and escorted him home.

• The Lionheart Earl suspected Li Yan had attacked the Tiger Roar Earl’s son over the woman he loved and ordered the Lionheart Legion to meet him.
• The Lionheart Earl and his wife discussed taking the Tiger Roar Earl’s territory and considered the Royal Capital a possible enemy.
• Little Fool offered to kill the soldiers blocking the Mana Battle Car, but Li Yan said Space Magic would let them escape.
• Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue spotted the Lionheart Legion, whose arrival made the Tiger Roar Earl’s soldiers flee.
• The legion’s general welcomed Li Yan home and told him the Lionheart Earl had been waiting for him.