Chapter Summaries

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.

After returning safely to the Lionheart territory, Li Yan persuaded the Lionheart Earl to let him lead a campaign against the Tiger Roar Earl, who had repeatedly tried to kill him. The Lionheart Legion prepared to march, and Li Yan set out for war with Little Fool at his side.

• Li Yan returned to the Lionheart territory under the Lionheart Legion’s protection, and the Lionheart Earl ordered him to remain there until the Tiger Roar Earl was dead.
• Li Yan said he would take responsibility for killing the Tiger Roar Earl’s son and proposed attacking the Tiger Roar Earl’s territory.
• The Lionheart Earl agreed with the campaign but warned that the countess opposed it, and Li Yan said he would speak to his mother.
• After Li Yan rested for a day, the Lionheart Legion prepared for war with Mana Battle Cars and cavalry.
• The Lionheart Earl, the countess, Li Yan’s siblings, and Xiao Xue wished him safety as he prepared to depart with Little Fool.

Li Yan used the Holy Sword to destroy Demons and breach the Tiger Roar Earl’s defenses, and his victories drove the earl’s soldiers to surrender. The Tiger Roar Earl was ultimately killed by Little Fool’s Sword-Control Magic.

• Li Yan stopped Little Fool from attacking the Demons and demonstrated the Holy Sword’s power, killing them with a slash that also cleared the clouds.
• The Lionheart Legion’s morale surged after witnessing Li Yan’s attack.
• On the seventh day, Li Yan shattered the walls of a town with the Holy Sword, allowing the Lionheart Legion to capture it.
• After eighteen towns fell, the Tiger Roar Earl’s soldiers captured him and offered him to Li Yan as a bargaining chip.
• Little Fool whispered to the Tiger Roar Earl before killing him with a mana greatsword using her Sword-Control Magic.

Li Yan captured the Tiger Roar Earl’s territory and killed the Earl, while avoiding envoys seeking to meet him. As the Lionheart Earl celebrated the swift victory and worried about political repercussions, Flamme told Frieren that her senior brother was safe and would soon return.

• Li Yan learned that the Tiger Roar Earl’s powerful mages had left for a tournament arranged by Flamme, while other potential allies withdrew after hearing of his victories.
• Li Yan refused to meet envoys from the Royal Capital and other kingdoms, and reflected on his Warrior’s bottleneck.
• The Lionheart Earl received reports that Li Yan had captured cities without casualties and killed the Tiger Roar Earl, then worried that Li Yan’s success might draw danger from the King.
• A general from the Lionheart Legion met the Royal Capital envoy on Li Yan’s behalf while Li Yan remained busy.
• At the Magic Continent Association tournament, Flamme told Frieren that her senior brother was safe and would soon return.

Li Yan ignored the nobles dividing Tiger Roar Earl's territory and explored a local magic item shop, where he bought potions that could turn body parts invisible and dissolve clothing. He left considering magic potion making as a promising pursuit and stored the potions in his Alternate Space.

• Li Yan took Little Fool to explore Tiger Roar Earl's territory instead of attending the nobles' meeting.
• Li Yan asked the shopkeeper about a blue invisibility potion and learned that it lasted five minutes and cost one gold coin per bottle.
• The shopkeeper showed Li Yan several unusual magic items, including a spiked garment, a Bison Monster tail, and a Red Dragon's tooth.
• The shopkeeper offered Li Yan a purple potion that dissolved clothes without harming skin, and Li Yan bought it along with the invisibility potion for fifteen gold coins.
• Li Yan stored the potions in his Alternate Space and considered learning Magic Potion Making.

Li Yan took charge of the Tiger Roar Earl's territory and began planning to modernize Wigster City Town with his Mechanical Magic Puppets. He persuaded Serie to join him, and on the journey back he reunited with Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue.

• The Lionheart Earl gave Li Yan responsibility for the Tiger Roar Earl's territory and explained that he could inherit the title of Earl.
• After a banquet, Li Yan became the master of the territory and began planning to transform Wigster City Town.
• Li Yan went to Serie's castle to collect Mechanical Magic Puppets and persuaded her to visit Wigster City Town with promises of fried chicken, cola, and other foods.
• Li Yan and Serie set out for Wigster City Town with the puppets, and two days later Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue caught up with them.