Recaps

The Earl ordered the Mechanical Assassination Unit to kill the King after learning the Royal Capital had arranged an assassination against his Family. The machines attacked the palace but failed to overcome the King and Moria, leaving the King’s guards to capture the situation.

• The Earl learned the Royal Capital had colluded with mages from the Magic Continent Association and ordered the Mechanical Assassination Unit to kill the King.
• Dozens of bat-shaped mechanical Magic Puppets flew into the palace under cover of darkness and launched daggers at the King.
• The King blocked the daggers and struck one Puppet down, while the captain activated Mechanical Overclock Mode and attacked him.
• The King repelled the Puppets’ poisoned darts, and Moria used earthen arms to tear off their mechanical arms.
• Hundreds of Kingdom guards surrounded the Mechanical Assassination Unit, and the King reprimanded their captain for arriving late.

Li Yan confronted the king after learning that the Royal Family had sent assassins after his family and granddaughter. The king and Royal Family were killed, and a note announced that the story would now jump ahead in time.

• Li Yan appeared in the palace and accused the young king of ordering an attack on his family.
• Court Mage Moria recognized Li Yan, but Li Yan killed him with a single strike.
• Li Yan slew hundreds of Kingdom Guards and threatened to kill the young king and his family.
• The young king begged for mercy and blamed the great nobles, but Little Fool killed him with Mana swords.
• Little Fool and Li Yan slaughtered the Royal Family and vanished into the night as a masked Demon girl and a cloaked figure.
• The author’s note announced that the story would jump ahead in time.

Li Yan staged the fall of the conspirators and helped his son unite the Kingdom, then spent centuries advancing magic and mechanical Magic Puppets as the Demons continued their offensives. After conquering underground labyrinths with Little Fool, he found a spell for artificial human skin that could enable a new generation of bodies for Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue.

• Li Yan and Little Fool disguised themselves as Demons while eliminating the nobles involved in the young King's assassination, then arranged for the Lionheart Earl to publicly kill Little Fool and become King.
• The Kingdom entered a magical golden age, and Serie resumed her role as president of the Magic Continent Association while Frieren kept her cola rationed.
• As the decades passed, Li Yan developed increasingly powerful generations of mechanical Magic Puppets, while the Demons launched devastating attacks and the throne passed to his descendants.
• Li Yan advanced his magic, mastered the combination of five elements, and conquered underground labyrinths with Little Fool.
• Li Yan found a spell for artificial human skin and considered using it to create suitable fifth-generation mechanical bodies for Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue.

After reviving Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue in mechanical bodies, Li Yan sent Little Fool into Demon territory to gather information and magical knowledge. Little Fool left reluctantly under the identity of the Nameless Greater Demon, while Li Yan remained behind hoping she would help him learn the Demons’ secrets.

• Li Yan revived Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue in human mechanical Magic Puppet bodies, and they reunited with him.
• Li Yan decided to send Little Fool to infiltrate the Demons because he could not safely enter their territory himself.
• Li Yan tried to persuade Little Fool by promising she could become the Demon King and asking her to protect him; Little Fool said she would kill the Demon King if it threatened him.
• Little Fool reluctantly agreed to leave, and Li Yan gave her instructions about dealing with Demons and concealing her ties to humanity.
• Li Yan named her the Nameless Greater Demon, and Little Fool departed for Demon territory.

Li Yan searched for ways to improve his stalled physique and secretly sought out veteran Warriors to learn from their experience. After luring Old York with his impressive body and listening to his teachings, he attracted several other old Warriors, who gathered around him and began offering their own insights and relatives as potential spouses.

• Li Yan tried lifespan magic but found that its small gains cost substantial Mana and left him physically weakened.
• Li Yan brought Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue to the Royal Capital and asked them to leave him alone so he could attract Old York.
• Li Yan exercised in the square, drawing a crowd and catching Old York’s attention with his exceptional physique.
• Old York shared his Warrior training and combat insights while Li Yan listened and meditated on them.
• Several veteran Warriors arrived, admired Li Yan, and crowded around him with offers to teach him and introduce him to their descendants.
• Old York told the other veterans that he had already fulfilled his wish and planned to enjoy the food, drink, and pension provided to retired Warriors.

Li Yan traveled through the Kingdom, learning from veteran Warriors until his physique transcended its limits and his senses improved enough to glimpse possible futures. He returned to the Royal Capital five years after Little Fool left, while her log showed that she missed him during her time in Demon territory.

• Li Yan listened to Old York and the other veterans share their martial insights, and he admired their determination to help the Kingdom's young people.
• Li Yan continued learning in towns across the Kingdom, including from Dwarf Warriors, until the restraints within his body broke and his physique reached transcendence.
• Li Yan explained to Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue that his improved senses let him see briefly into the future, though he avoided imagining what might happen if he reunited with Frieren or Serie.
• Little Fool's log recounted how Demon Soldiers mistook her for a Nameless Greater Demon and introduced her to a Demon General, while she repeatedly wrote that she missed Li Yan.
• Little Fool grew tired of recording the same longing every day and decided to write in her log only when something interesting happened.

Solitär recorded her encounters with the Demon King and several powerful Demons, especially Macht, whose interest in coexistence and human guilt reminded her of Li Yan. In the year 400 of the unified Kingdom, she returned to the Royal Capital and happily reunited with Li Yan.

• Solitär met the Demon King, delayed answering its offer to join, and later encountered its trusted aide All-Knowing Schlacht, whose inability to foresee her future led her to take the name Solitär.
• Solitär befriended Macht, learned about his unique magic Diagoldze and his desire to understand humans, and explained malice and guilt to him.
• Solitär met the Seven Sages of Destruction Grausam and Bose, while Macht began considering an experiment after discussing human guilt with her.
• Macht returned from destroying a village and told Solitär that a priest's words had deepened his desire to understand humans.
• In the year 400 of the unified Kingdom, Little Fool returned to the Royal Capital with information and reunited with Li Yan, who welcomed her affectionately.

Li Yan discovered that Little Fool was the Demon Solitär and realized his influence had already changed the original course of events. After sending her back to learn about the Demon King, he reflected on the growing power of the Kingdom’s seventh-generation mechanical Magic Puppets.

• Li Yan read Little Fool’s journals, recognized the name Solitär, and realized she was the Demon he had raised and reshaped into his battle maid.
• Li Yan assessed the Demon forces and told Little Fool to return to them and investigate the Demon King, warning her to beware of Grausam’s mental magic.
• Li Yan trained with Little Fool before she left again.
• In the four hundred and fiftieth year of the unified Kingdom, Li Yan observed the modernizing Royal Capital and noted that Frieren had gone traveling.
• Li Yan considered the seventh-generation mechanical Magic Puppets’ improvements and the potential of Macht’s gold for their next generation.

Solitär brought Macht to meet Li Yan, hoping Li Yan could help the Demon understand human malice and guilt. Li Yan agreed to consider helping him in exchange for anything Macht could offer, including betraying the Demon King.

• Solitär recorded meeting Macht and traveling with him after years away from Li Yan, and recalled Macht turning Frieren's arm to gold when they encountered her.
• Solitär sent Li Yan a letter saying Macht wanted to understand humans and would meet him in the northern war zone.
• Li Yan arrived in the forest, where Macht recognized his strength and asked whether he was the person who could teach him guilt and malice.
• Solitär joyfully embraced Li Yan, who greeted her warmly before asking Macht what he would give in return for his help.
• Macht said he hated war and wanted to coexist with humans, explaining that he sought to understand their feelings.

Li Yan brought Macht to the Royal Capital and appointed him as his butler, hoping the human world would help him understand guilt and malice. After Macht refused the domination collar for now, Li Yan ordered a search for Frieren, who had gone into hiding after Macht turned one of her arms to gold.

• Li Yan offered Macht work as his butler and promised to take him into the human world to experience human emotions.
• Macht refused to wear the domination collar until he had reason to trust Li Yan, so Li Yan gave him fifty years to reconsider.
• Li Yan brought Macht and Solitär to the Royal Capital, where Macht was astonished by its advanced buildings and bustling streets.
• Li Yan introduced Macht to the mechanical maids Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue and asked him to suppress his mana to avoid attracting attention.
• After reading Solitär's diary, Li Yan learned that Macht had turned Frieren's arm to gold and ordered his intelligence teams to find her.

Li Yan learned that Frieren had withdrawn to a village after Macht turned her arm to gold, then visited her in disguise. Frieren showed him her arm and insisted she was analyzing the curse, while Li Yan left his identity concealed.

• Li Yan learned that Frieren had been living in a village since her encounter with Macht and ordered the Lionheart King to keep Macht away from Serie and other battle-hungry people.
• Li Yan gave Macht the job of teaching the Lionheart King's descendants, then traveled alone to Frieren's village wearing a mask.
• Li Yan found Frieren's home and waited outside until she woke near noon.
• Frieren shut the door after Li Yan claimed he had come from the Royal Capital on the Lionheart King's orders.
• Li Yan threatened to tell Serie about Frieren, prompting her to open the door and reveal her golden arm.
• Frieren said the golden arm did not affect her life and that she expected to finish analyzing it soon.

Li Yan reunited with Frieren, whose arm had been turned to gold by Macht's Diagoldze, and brought her back to the Royal Capital. Convinced she was dreaming, Frieren clung to her returned senior brother while struggling to accept the people and Demon gathered there.

• Li Yan found Frieren's golden arm and learned she had spent decades trying to reverse Diagoldze on her own.
• Li Yan revealed his face, embraced Frieren, and asked her to come home with him; Frieren mistook him for a dream version of her dead senior brother.
• Frieren cried about her hardships and wiped her nose on Li Yan's clothes while he comforted her.
• Li Yan used Space Magic to take Frieren to the Royal Capital, where Xiao Wu, Xiao Xue, Solitär, and Macht welcomed them.
• Frieren hid behind Li Yan and asked him to kill Macht, but Li Yan explained that Macht was now their butler and would protect her.
• Frieren decided that the impossible sight of her senior brother, the returned Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue, and the Demons must all be part of a dream.

Li Yan fought Macht to demonstrate his strength, then helped Frieren study Diagoldze and explained how Curse Reversal Magic could counter it. The chapter ended with Macht testing Diagoldze on Li Yan and Solitär warning him not to risk hurting Li Yan again.

• Li Yan asked Macht to attack him with Diagoldze while Frieren watched and tried to analyze the magic.
• Li Yan countered Macht’s golden slash with his Song of Ice and Fire swords, then fought him until Macht formed a golden shield and they called a halt.
• Li Yan asked Frieren how much she had analyzed, reassured her, and accompanied her as she questioned Macht about Diagoldze.
• Li Yan explained that Curse Reversal Magic could grant immunity to Diagoldze, though Frieren said she had given up studying it after ten years.
• Macht tested Diagoldze on Li Yan, but the curse was repelled, and Solitär threatened to kill Macht if he tried it again.

In a dream, Frieren studied Macht’s Diagoldze and enjoyed a feast with Li Yan, growing emotional as she remembered her master and senior brother. She asked Li Yan to appear in her dreams again, then ended the night still convinced the dream felt real.

• Frieren had Macht cast Diagoldze repeatedly on objects and candy so she could study its magic, but her attempt to undo the gold transmutation on her arm failed.
• Li Yan woke and invited Frieren to dinner, where she wept over memories of birthdays spent with him and her master.
• Frieren made Li Yan promise to meet her in her dream the next day, and he promised to stay with her in dreams or reality.
• After the meal, Li Yan warned Frieren about overeating, while Xiao Wu, Xiao Xue, Solitär, and Macht reacted to her remark about her belly getting big.
• That night, Frieren ran around barefoot and jumped onto the bed, telling Li Yan she had explored because the dream felt so real.

Frieren remained trapped in a dream where she met a younger Li Yan and began to fear that it was a nightmare. After she woke again at noon, strange people and impossible events made her more convinced that something was wrong.

• Frieren dreamed that she slept beside Li Yan, then woke in an unfamiliar room and realized she was still dreaming.
• Li Yan tickled Frieren awake, but she panicked when she could not return to the real world.
• Li Yan reassured Frieren and let her go back to sleep, then told Xiao Wu to prepare lunch instead of breakfast.
• Frieren woke at noon, encountered Xiao Xue, and was startled by her lack of detectable mana and silent footsteps.
• Li Yan appeared behind Frieren by teleportation, leaving her convinced that the dream was becoming a nightmare.

Frieren continued analyzing Macht’s Diagoldze in Li Yan’s dreamlike home, but remained trapped even after she restored her golden arm. After years passed and the Royal Capital changed, she planned to visit Grandmaster Serie, then ended the morning full and sleepy after an enormous breakfast.

• Li Yan made Frieren study Diagoldze while Macht repeatedly cast it, but she failed to undo the gold transmutation on her arm.
• Frieren grew convinced the dream had troubling flaws, including the lifeless maids, Macht and Solitär serving Li Yan, and Li Yan’s unusual behavior.
• Frieren’s journal recorded years of studying Diagoldze, making golden spider guards, briefly restoring her arm, and learning that the Royal Capital had changed.
• Li Yan warned Frieren not to tell Grandmaster Serie that he was alive, and Frieren decided to visit Serie the next day to investigate whether she could help her escape.
• Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue helped Frieren get ready, and after eating a huge breakfast, Frieren said she was full and wanted to sleep again.

Frieren reached the Magic Continent Association in the dream and reunited with Serie, who was still its president. The chapter ended with Frieren exposing Serie’s attempt to hide that she had been eating potato chips and drinking cola before turning the conversation to Frieren’s travels.

• Frieren left the castle and found the renovated Magic Continent Association in the Royal Capital.
• Frieren showed the hostess her Holy Staff Proof and asked to meet the president, Serie.
• Serie recognized the description of Frieren and allowed the First-Class Mage to bring her to the ninety-ninth floor.
• Frieren entered Serie’s office and noticed signs that Serie had been eating potato chips and drinking cola.
• Serie denied it, but Frieren teased her until Serie dodged her and asked about Frieren’s travels.

Frieren asked Serie whether she was trapped in a dream but hid her encounter with Li Yan and the Phantom Demon, and Serie convinced her she was awake by unleashing her mana. Frieren then told Serie about Macht and how she had analyzed Diagoldze, while Serie looked up intelligence on the Demon.

• Frieren told Serie she thought she was trapped in a dream, then withheld details about her senior brother after remembering his warning.
• Frieren refused Serie’s offer to examine her memories and asked whether she was in the real world.
• Serie assured Frieren she was awake and overwhelmed the room with her mana, restoring Frieren’s spirits.
• Frieren told Serie she planned to stay in the Royal Capital for a few decades and described how Macht had turned her arm to gold.
• Frieren said she had analyzed Diagoldze and restored her arm, and Serie searched her records for information about Macht.
• Serie found intelligence identifying Macht as one of the Seven Sages of Destruction and read about his lethal gold-transformation magic.

Li Yan decided to make Macht and Solitär publicly wear Subjugation Collars and live among humans, while Frieren returned from seeing Serie and asked Li Yan about his past. Li Yan explained how he had revived Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue as mechanical maids, and Frieren learned why he had been absent for so long.

• Li Yan told Macht to put on a Subjugation Collar openly before humans, and Macht and Solitär agreed to live in the human world.
• Li Yan sent Golden Spiders to tell the Lionheart King to publicize the demons' plan to live alongside humans.
• Frieren returned to Li Yan's castle after visiting Serie and asked whether Li Yan and the revived Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue were real.
• Li Yan told Frieren that he had Elf Clan blood and had secluded himself for centuries while seeking magic to revive their master.
• Li Yan explained that he had undone Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue's seals and used soul-related magic to make them mechanical maids, and they said they were content to stay by his side.

Li Yan helped Macht and Solitär gain acceptance in the Royal Capital through staged displays of their power while secretly encouraging nobles to rebel. Later, Frieren learned Curse Reversal Magic and went shopping with Li Yan, leaving Macht with another day of exhausting work.

• The Royal Family announced that Macht and Solitär would become residents of the Unified Kingdom, and Li Yan fitted them with Subjugation Collars before the Royal Capital's residents.
• Macht and Solitär executed imprisoned Demons, then later defeated staged prison escapees in public, winning the residents' acceptance.
• Nobles debated rebelling against the Lionheart King, while a mustached nobleman secretly recorded the names of those most eager to rebel.
• In the 750th year of the Unified Kingdom, Frieren told Li Yan she had learned Curse Reversal Magic, and he praised her before agreeing to take her shopping.
• Li Yan left with Frieren and assigned Macht more duties, prompting Macht to complain that he could feel Li Yan's malice.

Li Yan took Frieren on a date in the Royal Capital, buying her clothes and showing her the Food Street and aquarium before taking her to a movie. Frieren was captivated by the film and declared that she would become the Pirate King.

• Li Yan bought Frieren several outfits, including a little elk costume, and paid for two of each outfit they chose.
• Li Yan took Frieren to Food Street, where she ate enough to gain two kilograms.
• Li Yan bought Frieren a child's ticket to the aquarium, where she watched marine animals and fed the performing dolphins.
• Li Yan brought Frieren to a private cinema box just before the movie began.
• Frieren watched the story of the Lionheart King searching for the Pirate King's Magic Tomes and declared, "I'm going to be the Pirate King..."

Li Yan and Frieren shared everyday outings and affectionate moments while Frieren learned to drive and watched the Lionheart King become Pirate King in a movie. At a weapons test, Frieren eagerly asked to fire the new Mana Rocket Launcher.

• After the movie, Li Yan carried Frieren home, and they promised to watch One Piece together again.
• In the Unified Kingdom’s eight hundredth year, Li Yan taught Frieren to drive a Mana Battle Car and arranged for her to receive a license without taking the test.
• At a hotpot restaurant, Li Yan teased Frieren about calling many foods the best in the world, and she offered him a piece of beef as the best in the world.
• In the Unified Kingdom’s eight hundred and fiftieth year, Frieren watched the Lionheart King defeat Demon King Blackbeard in the movie and celebrated the ending.
• Li Yan took Frieren to a Royal Capital weapons test, where researchers presented the Mana Rocket Launcher and Frieren asked to fire it.

Li Yan approved the Mana Rocket Launcher’s research funding, then traveled to Earl Granat’s territory to meet Aura, the violinist and Demon who wielded Obedience Magic. He found Aura leading an attack on the town, where her Executioners began confronting the human defenders.

• Frieren tested the Mana Rocket Launcher, and Li Yan approved further military funding for its research.
• After learning that Aura had appeared in Earl Granat’s territory, Li Yan decided to invite the famous violinist and left alone for the Northern War Zone.
• Li Yan watched the town’s defenders battle Aura’s headless knights from a rooftop as the knights retreated to welcome their commander.
• Aura arrived with Lugner, Draht, and Line, and the defenders turned their attention to the Demons.
• Lugner attacked the soldiers with a chain formed from his blood, while Draht said his Mana threads could control them for Aura.

Li Yan ambushed Aura and swiftly subdued her three top subordinates and the Headless Knights. Aura tried to use her Obedience Scale against him, but Li Yan revealed that he had limited his own mana and still slightly surpassed hers.

• Li Yan used Spatial Movement to appear above Aura and fired a mana rocket at her, but Lugner blocked it with a Blood Shield.
• Draht attacked Li Yan with Mana Threads, but Li Yan pinned him down and broke the bones in his hand.
• Li Yan used Stone Arms to seize Lugner and Line, then bound Draht with vines when he tried to attack again.
• Li Yan restrained Aura’s Headless Knights with vines as they advanced on him.
• Aura used the Obedience Scale on Li Yan, but she was unsettled by how dark his soul appeared.
• Li Yan revealed that he had limited his mana and that it was still slightly stronger than Aura’s.

Li Yan overwhelmed Aura on the Obedience Scale and forced her to become his obedient pet, then subdued her officers and purified the army of headless knights. He left Aura and her subordinates alive to serve him, while resolving that Aura would atone by helping him fight Demons.

• Aura doubted Li Yan’s claims about his mana and his connection to Flamme, but the Obedience Scale began tipping in his favor.
• Li Yan revealed his enormous mana and his ties to Serie, Flamme, the Lionheart Kings, Macht, and Solitär, crushing Aura on the Obedience Scale.
• Li Yan ordered Aura to act like a kitten, and she obeyed as he fastened a pink Subjugation Collar around her neck.
• Li Yan collared Draht, Line, and Lugner, taking them in as Aura’s subordinates.
• Li Yan cast a massive Purification Magic that destroyed the controlled corpses of tens of thousands of headless knights.