Chapter Summaries

Li Yan welcomed Frieren home with a family reunion dinner after they watched a meteor shower. Later, Himmel and Heiter married, and Li Yan promised Solitär they could marry when Flamme returned to life, leaving Frieren quiet at the mention of her master.

• Li Yan brought Frieren home through a Spatial Gate, where Aura, Line, Solitär, Xiao Wu, Xiao Xue, and Macht welcomed her to a reunion dinner.
• Macht revealed that Li Yan had talked about Frieren in his sleep, and Li Yan served her a Spicy Chicken Wing.
• Himmel and Heiter held a joint wedding, with the Lionheart King officiating and Eize enduring their attempts to find him a match.
• Frieren watched the wedding with Li Yan and said Himmel and Heiter were happy.
• Solitär asked whether she could marry Li Yan, and he agreed on the condition that Flamme returned to life.
• Frieren started to speak but lowered her head when she thought of Flamme.

Macht revealed that he had turned Glück’s sick daughter to gold and planned to do the same to Glück so he could later be restored, asking Li Yan to help him. Years later, as Himmel faced death, Li Yan offered him a choice between becoming a statue or a machine.

• Macht told Li Yan that he had turned Glück’s daughter to gold and that Denken had been told she died of her illness.
• Macht explained that he wanted to turn Glück to gold so he could feel guilt and malice, then have him restored in the future to live happily with his daughter.
• Li Yan agreed to help Macht after Macht calmly begged him to spare Denken.
• Years later, Himmel came to Li Yan as his life neared its end, and Li Yan asked whether he wanted to become a statue or a machine.

Himmel chose a mechanical body so he could remain with his wife and children, then fought Demons as the Era of Himmel's Passing unfolded. When war among the human kingdoms devastated the countryside, Li Yan found an orphaned girl named Fern and took her with him.

• Himmel chose a mechanical body, and Demons took advantage of the time he needed to adjust to it to launch attacks.
• Himmel, the Hero of the South, and their allies defeated Demons in the fifth year, then fought Greater Demons in the tenth year, losing one of Himmel's mechanical arms as Rivale escaped.
• Human kingdoms declared war on the Lionheart King in the fifteenth year, plunging the Kingdom into chaos.
• Li Yan traveled through a ruined town with Heiter, who healed the surviving townspeople.
• Li Yan found a wary little girl beside her dead parents, offered her candy, and invited her to come home with him.
• The girl accepted Li Yan's offer and told him her name was Fern.

After the war, Li Yan adopted Fern as his goddaughter and brought her home to the castle, where the household gathered to meet her. Aura teased him by suggesting Fern was his biological daughter, provoking his wrath.

• Li Yan introduced Fern to Heiter after burying her parents, and Heiter accepted her as his new younger sister.
• Li Yan stayed with Fern while Heiter treated the wounded, then took her through a Spatial Gate after the Kingdom's army arrived to aid the displaced townspeople.
• Heiter reassured Fern about her new home and said goodbye before Li Yan brought her to the castle.
• Aura announced that Li Yan had brought a woman home, drawing Frieren, Solitär, Xiao Wu, Xiao Xue, Line, and Macht into the hall.
• Li Yan introduced Fern as his goddaughter, and Aura mischievously asked whether she was his biological daughter, prompting him to threaten Aura with his burning iron sand palm.

Li Yan welcomed Fern into his family, gave her a lavish dinner and a room of her own, and comforted her as she grieved for her parents. After casting a spell to protect her dreams, he went to punish Aura for her earlier arrogance, while Aura tried to keep him out of her room.

• Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue praised Fern, and Li Yan told everyone to stop crowding her because she was part of the family now.
• At dinner, Li Yan served Fern food and promised to protect her, while Aura watched him give Fern all her favorite dishes.
• Li Yan showed Fern her pink room filled with stuffed animals and comforts, and she told him she loved it despite feeling sad about losing her parents.
• Li Yan reassured Fern, wished her good night, and cast a Dream-Protection Spell on her room before heading to Aura's room.
• Aura refused to open her locked door and taunted Li Yan, while Line decided to pretend she was asleep; Li Yan then appeared beside Aura and stroked her head.

Li Yan brought Fern out for a sunny picnic with Frieren, Solitär, Aura, Macht, and a pack of puppies, hoping to give her a comforting morning. Fern began to relax among her new companions, while the puppies caused trouble and Macht impressed her by carving an ice puppy.

• Li Yan invited Fern to join breakfast on the lawn, and she washed up, dressed herself, and came downstairs.
• Fern tried to pet the puppies, but they crowded around Li Yan, who showed her how to tempt them with food.
• A puppy took Frieren's Magic Tome, so Frieren restrained it and lured it into dropping the tome with a piece of meat.
• Aura ordered a puppy to bite Frieren, but it instead bit Aura's shoe, and she angrily shooed it away.
• Macht offered drinks, made Fern papaya milk with an ice puppy carved from gold, and refused Aura's request for an ice Demon King.

Li Yan and Frieren trained Fern to improve her magic, first using a rocket launcher to practice accuracy and then teaching her Mana Restriction Magic. After months of training, Fern destroyed a boulder more than seven hundred meters away, and Frieren approved of her progress.

• Li Yan asked Fern to break a boulder five hundred meters away with Normal Attack Magic as a test before taking her to the amusement park.
• Frieren gave Fern a rocket launcher to practice aiming, and Fern hit a boulder at two hundred meters with her first shot.
• After two and a half months of practice, Fern could hit a boulder beyond five hundred meters, but her attack only chipped it.
• Frieren taught Fern Mana Restriction Magic and told her to maintain it for the rest of her life.
• After a month of training with the spell, Fern destroyed a boulder more than seven hundred meters away, earning Frieren's approval.

After Fern became a qualified mage by shattering a boulder from seven hundred meters away, Li Yan promised to take her to the amusement park. Fern, Li Yan, and Frieren spent the day enjoying rides and meeting mascots, and Fern returned home delighted.

• Fern shattered a boulder from seven hundred meters away, and Frieren congratulated her on becoming a qualified mage.
• Fern ran to tell Li Yan she had exceeded her training goal, and he promised to take her to the amusement park the next day.
• Li Yan took Fern and Frieren to the amusement park, where Fern rode the roller coaster and Frieren reluctantly joined her.
• Fern and Frieren enjoyed the carousel and other rides, then Fern excitedly interacted with the mascot NPCs using Li Yan's super VIP card.
• Fern had a wonderful time at the amusement park and ran beside Li Yan on the way back.

After Heiter exhausted his life force and chose to devote himself to the Goddess, Li Yan turned him into a statue and took Fern and Frieren on a journey to clear his head. The chapter ended with Li Yan leaving Fern to face a giant red bird Monster as her first opponent on the road.

• Li Yan ordered Mechanical Spiders to investigate whether a suspicious boy had appeared beside Eize, then continued studying Rejuvenation Magic.
• Fern earned third-class mage certification in her teens, while the Intelligence Department reported that Stark had quarreled with Eize and run away.
• Heiter refused Li Yan’s offered choices and said he wanted to devote his life to the Goddess, so Li Yan knocked him out and arranged for him to be turned into a statue.
• Himmel watched Heiter being carried away, and Frieren comforted Li Yan by patting his head.
• Li Yan set out with Fern and Frieren on foot, and warned Fern to watch for Monsters in the sky.
• A giant red bird swooped toward Fern, and Li Yan told her to fight it as her first opponent since leaving home.

Li Yan and Frieren celebrated Fern’s birthday in Bokari Small Town, where Li Yan prepared a lavish breakfast and Fern woke to his wishes. The chapter left Fern enjoying the meal with Frieren while her birthday cake waited for noon.

• Fern killed her first Monster, a giant bird, and Frieren praised her accuracy, power, and casting speed before Li Yan praised and patted her head.
• During the carriage ride, Li Yan asked Fern what she wanted for her birthday, and Frieren decided to give her a Magic Potion that could dissolve clothes.
• In Bokari Small Town, Li Yan prepared a lavish birthday breakfast and chose a priceless red agate from his Storage Alternate Space as Fern’s present.
• Li Yan woke Fern and wished her a happy birthday, then Fern brushed Frieren’s hair and dressed her before they went to breakfast.
• Fern and Frieren enjoyed Li Yan’s cooking, and Li Yan saved Fern’s cake for noon when she was too full to eat it.

Fern received a red agate and a clothes-dissolving potion for her birthday, while Li Yan and his companions visited Stark’s village to recruit him to fight the Red Mirror Dragon. Stark doubted his ability, but Li Yan challenged him to stop running away as the dragon still threatened the village.

• Fern admired Li Yan’s red agate gift, then accepted Frieren’s clothes-dissolving potion and secretly pocketed it.
• In the twenty-eighth year after Himmel’s passing, Li Yan brought Frieren and Fern to Stark’s village, where they heard how Stark had protected it from the Red Mirror Dragon.
• Li Yan recognized Stark as Eize’s apprentice and learned that Stark had driven the dragon away three years earlier.
• Li Yan asked Stark to kill the Red Mirror Dragon, but Stark said he was not strong enough.
• Li Yan reminded Stark that the dragon had fled because of him and challenged him not to keep running away from danger.

Li Yan encouraged Stark to face the Red Mirror Dragon as a way to train him, and Stark overcame his fear and returned to defend the village. The chapter ended as Stark descended into the gorge and the dragon sensed him approaching.

• Li Yan told Stark that the party would attack the Red Mirror Dragon the next morning, then explained to Fern that he had exaggerated his own strength to encourage Stark.
• Li Yan said Himmel would arrive the next day and suggested that Stark train alongside him.
• The next morning, Stark was missing, but he returned with his Battle Axe and vowed to protect the village.
• Li Yan, Frieren, and Fern followed Stark to the gorge where the Red Mirror Dragon slept atop a pile of treasure.
• Stark jumped into the gorge, and the Red Mirror Dragon sensed him and stared at him with its golden eyes.

Stark killed the Red Mirror Dragon after discovering that Li Yan, Frieren, and Fern had left him to fight alone. Himmel arrived and took Stark under his wing, while Frieren and Fern found a spellbook that let its user see through clothes.

• Stark charged the Red Mirror Dragon and fought on despite his fear, believing his master's friends would attack with magic.
• Stark saw Li Yan, Frieren, and Fern watching from above instead of preparing a spell, then realized he would have to rely on himself.
• Stark killed the wounded Red Mirror Dragon with Flash Heaven Strike, impressing Fern and Himmel.
• Li Yan told Himmel to take Stark, and Himmel introduced himself as Eize's friend and offered to train him.
• Frieren beat Li Yan to a Magic Tome containing a spell that let its user see through clothes, and Fern learned the spell while Li Yan pretended not to be interested.

Li Yan, Frieren, and Fern confronted a Phantom Demon whose illusions showed them people they had lost, and Li Yan comforted Fern after destroying the phantoms of her parents. Later, while Fern was poisoned by a snake, they heard a cry for help and found a man trapped in a bog, leaving them to decide whether to help him before seeking treatment for Fern.

• Li Yan, Frieren, and Fern learned that a Phantom Demon was luring villagers in the mountains with illusions of dead loved ones, and they went to confront it.
• Fern encountered phantoms of her parents and hesitated until Li Yan shattered them with a beam of magic.
• Li Yan comforted Fern, while Frieren asked whether he had seen their master; Li Yan said he had seen many familiar people.
• Afterward, Fern was bitten by a venomous snake, and Frieren suggested seeking help from a nearby village priest.
• The group heard someone cry for help and found a middle-aged man stuck in a bog; Li Yan allowed them ten seconds to assist him.

Li Yan rushed Fern to a village church after she was bitten by a poisonous snake, where Sein cured her. Li Yan invited Sein to train in the Royal Capital, but Sein refused, choosing to stay in the village with his older brother.

• Li Yan and Frieren rescued a middle-aged man from a swamp, then carried Fern to a nearby village church for treatment.
• The Priest with Glasses failed to cure Fern's snake venom but said his brother could help when he returned with medicinal herbs.
• As Li Yan prepared to take Fern back to the Royal Capital, the muddy man from the swamp arrived, and the Priest with Glasses identified him as his brother, Sein.
• Sein treated Fern, and Li Yan invited him to continue his studies in the Royal Capital.
• Sein refused Li Yan's invitation, saying he did not want to leave the village.

Li Yan urged Sein to leave his village and pursue the adventuring life he had long wanted, and Sein finally set out after his brother confronted him about his guilt. Li Yan, Frieren, and Fern continued their journey toward the next village, with Fern recovered but anxious about snakes.

• Li Yan refused to let Sein join his card game in nothing but his underpants, then returned to the village in fresh clothes and was scolded by Frieren and Fern.
• Li Yan asked Sein to leave the village and offered to help him find work in the Royal Capital, but Sein said he could not abandon his brother after the sacrifices he had made for him.
• The Priest with Glasses slapped Sein and told him to stop wasting his life out of guilt, giving Sein the courage to pursue his dream.
• Li Yan encouraged Sein to seek adventure and offered him a place in the Royal Capital if he ever tired of it, and Sein agreed to leave and find his childhood friend Gorilla Warrior.
• The Priest with Glasses watched Sein depart happily as Li Yan, Frieren, and Fern continued their journey, and Fern worried that the forest might contain more venomous snakes.

Li Yan, Frieren, and Fern found a village whose people had been put to sleep by a curse and tracked its source to a Chaos Flower Subspecies. Fern was cursed in the forest, but after Frieren protected her, Li Yan burned the flower to ash with Hellfire.

• Frieren identified the village’s sleeping villagers as victims of a curse, and Li Yan explained that Goddess Magic could potentially lift it.
• Frieren told Fern that Priests with innate aptitude could use Goddess Magic and resist curses, while Li Yan located the curse’s source.
• Li Yan and Frieren entered the forest, where Fern fell asleep from the curse; Frieren placed her inside a barrier, and Li Yan set Mechanical Spiders to guard her.
• Li Yan and Frieren found a ten-meter Chaos Flower Subspecies that absorbed mana and life force, including Fern’s.
• Li Yan attacked the flower with Hellfire until its vines burned away and its body vanished, leaving scorched earth and residual demonic energy.

After defeating the Chaos Flower, Li Yan and Frieren traveled with Fern to visit Frieren’s old friend, Grandpa Voll. They reunited at his village, where Grandpa Voll pretended not to recognize Frieren and then swung his scabbard at Li Yan.

• Li Yan explained to Fern that Hellfire magic had defeated the Chaos Flower, whose vines could reflect other magic.
• Frieren told Li Yan and Fern that she wanted to visit Grandpa Voll, a dwarf who had protected a village for nearly four hundred years.
• Li Yan and Fern rejected Frieren’s suggestion that they stay in the village for about twenty years.
• Frieren, Li Yan, and Fern reached the village and found Grandpa Voll sitting at its entrance.
• Grandpa Voll pretended not to recognize Frieren, then swung his scabbard at Li Yan when Frieren called out his act.

Li Yan reunited with Frieren and Fern at Grandpa Voll’s village, where they learned about Voll’s promise to his late wife and his long friendship with Himmel. The group then reached Äußerst and signed up for the First-Class Mage exam, while Li Yan continued researching eternal youth magic and Fern asked Frieren about him.

• Li Yan met Grandpa Voll, and Frieren explained that her senior brother had faked his death; Fern asked Li Yan why he had done so.
• During their week in the village, Li Yan told Fern that Voll had protected it for years to keep a promise to his human wife.
• As Li Yan and Frieren prepared to leave, Voll said he had dreamed of his wife and recalled that Li Yan was Himmel’s godfather and the Hero of the South’s master.
• In Äußerst, Li Yan, Frieren, and Fern all qualified to take the First-Class Mage exam so they could cross the northern plateau.
• Li Yan began researching eternal youth magic at their inn, and Fern asked Frieren to tell her about Li Yan.

Li Yan’s attempt to develop Eternal Youth Magic failed and transformed his appearance into that of a twelve-year-old, but he still prepared to take the First-Class Mage exam. Frieren and Fern accompanied him to the venue, where his unusual appearance drew attention and Zanze quietly recorded the mages who mocked him.

• Li Yan revealed that his Eternal Youth Magic circle had changed his body into a child’s, then sealed the unstable magic while keeping the youthful appearance.
• Zanze warned Li Yan that his appearance could complicate his exam entry, but he insisted on taking the exam and agreed to favor her in her next dispute with Linael.
• Frieren and Fern arrived to find Li Yan looking like a boy, learned that his appearance resulted from failed magic, and headed with him to the exam venue.
• At the venue, the gathered mages stared and speculated about Li Yan’s group, while Zanze noted those who laughed at her master.
• Genao wondered whether Li Yan was the descendant of an important person, and Zanze gave an uncertain answer.