Chapter Summaries

Rienta finished building a carefully designed courtyard and showed it to Serie, who realized he had come from the future. The chapter ended with Rienta explaining that the magic array on his hand let him contact the future Serie.

• Rienta completed the courtyard after three days of construction and landscaping with Flower field magic.
• Rienta promised Serie his Projection Magic research notes if he changed any more details, then led her through the courtyard.
• Serie suspected Rienta was not Flamme's disciple and reflected on his extraordinary mana and unfamiliar spells.
• Rienta watched the sunset and recalled that he had planned to build a courtyard like this in his previous life.
• Serie asked when Rienta had come back from, and Rienta explained that the magic array on his hand used Communication Magic to contact the future Serie.

Rienta told Serie about the future before they left the courtyard to seek a way back through the Goddess's Monument. They reached the Unified Empire city of Dreccol, where Bishop Roman said the church knew nothing about the monument.

• Rienta apologized to Serie for attacking her, then described the future and the history of magic as he knew it.
• Serie sealed the courtyard with a barrier, and she and Rienta set out to find the Goddess's Monument that had brought him to the past.
• Rienta and Serie traveled through villages to Dreccol, a large city in the Unified Empire, hoping to replenish supplies and ask the church about the monument.
• Rienta melted gold coins into bars and presented them at the church, where its members ushered him and Serie into a reception room.
• Roman, the bishop of Dreccol, greeted Rienta and Serie and told them the church knew nothing about the Goddess's Monument.

Rienta visited the Church, paid Bishop Roman for a map, and took nearly a thousand books about the [Sacred Scripture] from its Library. After Rienta and Serie left, Roman ordered Luna to gather more Scripture research and circulate portraits of the pair, preparing the Church for a changing world.

• Rienta gave Roman two gold bars as a donation and asked him to take him to the Church Library.
• Roman offered Rienta as many books as he wanted, and Rienta said he would take all the books about the [Sacred Scripture].
• Rienta and Serie spent about an hour in the Library before leaving with nearly a thousand books missing.
• Roman learned that they had taken every research record on the [Sacred Scripture] and inferred that Rienta was seeking information about a [Goddess's Monument].
• Roman told Luna to have Church branches near a [Goddess's Monument] compile Scripture research and send portraits of Rienta and Serie.

Rienta and Serie spent the evening sampling food in Dreccol, where Serie reflected on Flamme’s plan to spread magic across humanity. At the inn, Rienta considered the mysterious inscriptions on the Goddess’s Monument and the mismatch between his expectations and the future’s small number of mages, but he fell asleep without answers.

• Rienta and Serie strolled through Dreccol and sampled desserts and skewers after a vendor mistook Serie for Rienta’s girlfriend.
• Serie thought about Flamme’s last letter and her success in persuading the Unified Empire to promote the study of magic.
• Rienta wondered why the future had so few mages despite Flamme’s plan to spread magic across the continent.
• At the inn, Rienta examined his Sacred Scripture research notes and reasoned that he might need to remain in the past for nearly a thousand years to carve the inscriptions.
• Rienta found no notes on the Bird Chapter of Time Pilgrimage and went to sleep without resolving the mystery.

After finding no clues about the Goddess's Monument in the village, Himmel and his companions returned to ask the church about old records and learned of a remote monastery that might hold copies. They reached the mountain beneath its cliffside location and prepared to climb, while Frieren declined to fly there in case anyone saw her.

• Himmel and his companions found no information about the Goddess's Monument in the village, so they left and camped for the night.
• Heiter recalled that an old account mentioned a wealthy mage buying the church's Sacred Scripture research records, and suggested they search a monastery for clues.
• The group returned to the village, where a monk told them a monastery lay nearby; after Heiter prayed, the monk gave them its location.
• Himmel and his companions traveled to the remote monastery, which stood on a cliff jutting from the summit.
• Himmel asked Frieren to fly to the monastery, but she refused because someone might see her, so he resolved to climb up.

Himmel and his companions reached a monastery and searched its library for information about the Goddess's Monument, but found none. Heiter discovered an old diary mentioning Rienta, and Frieren quietly noted where the book was kept so she could read it later.

• Himmel and Eisen eagerly assessed the cliff blocking the way to the monastery while Frieren and Heiter rested after their difficult climb.
• Heiter told Frieren that he had known Himmel since childhood and explained that he continued following him because he believed in Himmel's ability to defeat the Demon King.
• Himmel and his companions climbed the cliff, reached the monastery, and searched its library for books about the Goddess's Monument.
• Heiter found and read Strange Mage, an old diary with excerpts about Rienta, a mage who fought with a sword and exchanged Sacred Scripture research records for gold bars.
• The group found no useful information about the Goddess's Monument, while Frieren silently remembered where Strange Mage was shelved for a later visit.
• Himmel proposed heading to their next stop, and Frieren questioned his optimism.

After failing to find clues about the Goddess's Monument at the monastery, Himmel and his companions searched a village, where a tavern owner told them of unexplored Unified Empire ruins with a great cathedral. The party set out toward the ruins, eager to investigate despite the previous adventurers never returning.

• Himmel suggested that the party visit Northern Plateau villages to ask about folk tales and rumors of the Goddess's Monument.
• Heiter agreed to travel after Himmel pointed out that visiting villages could mean trying more fine wine.
• Himmel, Frieren, and Eisen questioned villagers while Heiter drank at the tavern, but they found no useful information.
• The tavern owner told Himmel's party about ruins south of the village, where a great cathedral stood, and warned that an adventuring party had never returned from exploring them.
• Himmel and Frieren eagerly decided to investigate the ruins, while Heiter claimed that he had known the tavern would provide information.