Recaps

Ian confronted Kannari Rin and demonstrated his overwhelming speed and strength before using Toy Soldiers to attack the monsters blocking the Ruins. The soldiers’ attacks seemed effective, and Ian sent in hundreds more as the ground inside began to shake.

• Ian recognized Kannari Rin as the woman who had repeatedly called him and insulted her, provoking her to attack.
• Ian moved behind Kannari Rin, held a hand to the back of her head, and threatened her with killing intent before letting the confrontation cool.
• Ging told Ian that black Rune Insects and crystals of malicious intent had blocked exploration of the Ruins.
• Ian sent ten red Toy Soldiers into the cave, and explosions and gunfire soon sounded from inside.
• After the first soldiers were destroyed, Ian produced hundreds more and ordered them into the Ruins, where the ground began to shake.

Ian’s toy soldiers destroyed the Black Talisman Insects with fire, clearing the cave entrance so the Hunters and Exorcism Team could continue into the Ruins. As Ian and Ging followed them, an eerie passage began spreading toward the surface, its green lights welcoming an unseen king.

• Ian ordered his toy soldiers to burn the Black Talisman Insects, and they wiped them out despite suffering losses.
• Ian told Ging that the insects’ weakness was fire and challenged the Hunters and Exorcism Team to enter the Ruins with him.
• Ian mocked the Exorcism Team for hanging back, and Kannari Rin ordered them to continue the mission.
• Ian and Ging entered the Ruins after Netero, the Hunters, and Kannari Rin’s team.
• Ian refused Ging’s request to rely on his cannon against the Malice Crystals and said others needed the chance to grow.
• A strange passage spread underground toward the surface as green lights came on to welcome its king.

Ging warned the arguing Hunters that the Ruins’ danger remained and ordered Kannari Rin’s Exorcism Team to clear the Malice Crystals blocking their path. As the team’s Nen attacks slowly broke through, Ian questioned why the crystals had been created, and a dried corpse deep within the passage sensed Nen and released a vast En.

• Hunters argued over who would claim the valuable Malice Crystals until Ging arrived and reminded them that the Ruins’ danger was not over.
• Ging asked Netero to watch their surroundings and told Kannari Rin’s Exorcism Team to clear the crystals because their Nen-distorting field made the passage impassable.
• Kannari Rin ordered her team to fire Nen bullets at the crystals, but the crystals resisted the attacks and were destroyed only slowly.
• Ian asked Ging what the crystals had originally been made to resist, prompting Ging to reconsider the purpose of the Ruins and their defenses.
• Deep in the passage, a dried corpse sensed the Nen being used, wondered whether its enemies had returned, and unleashed a vast white En across several kilometers.

A terrifying Nen presence swept through the ruins, convincing Ian that the group faced an enemy on Meruem’s level. Though he tried to retreat, Ging and Netero pressed onward, and Ian ultimately brought out a giant gun emplacement to join them.

• An immense En scanned the area, startling Ian, Netero, Ging, Mizaistom, Kannari Rin, and the rest of the group.
• Netero recognized the ruins held an extraordinary enemy, while Ging feared the threat could devastate the Gogar Kingdom and Egina.
• Kannari Rin ordered the Exorcism Team to stay with Netero and hold their ground despite their fear.
• Ian prepared to escape, but Ging stopped him; Ian proposed retreating and used a Disaster-Repelling Sticker for protection.
• Ging and Netero continued deeper into the cave, and Ian followed by summoning a giant gun emplacement.

Ian joined the Hunters and Exorcism Team in the Ruins, where Malice Crystals had begun storing Nen and exploding when touched. He used the Invincible Turret to clear a path, then discovered that his Nonliving Hypnosis Loudspeaker could turn a crystal into a bomb.

• Ian gave Ging and Netero Disaster-Repelling Stickers and suggested bringing Knov along so the group could escape if they could not defeat their enemy.
• An explosion revealed that Malice Crystals were absorbing Nen and detonating when touched, leading Ging to explain the danger to the group.
• Kannari Rin ordered the Exorcism Team to attack the crystals, while Ging, Netero, and Ian helped destroy them with ranged attacks.
• Ian's Invincible Turret blasted through the glowing crystals and cleared the passageway, impressing the Hunters and Kannari Rin.
• Ian used the Nonliving Hypnosis Loudspeaker to tell a Malice Crystal it was a bomb, and it produced a transparent crystal bomb.

Ian turned Malice Crystals into powerful bombs and collected thousands while the team cleared the passage. He converted a giant crystal into a nuclear bomb, leaving him confident he could face whatever waited at the bottom of the Ruins.

• Ian demonstrated that hypnotized Malice Crystals made extremely powerful bombs, then used Toy Soldiers to gather fragments as the group advanced.
• Ian converted thousands of crystal fragments into bombs and stored them in his Item Combination Belt.
• At a giant Malice Crystal, Kannari Rin negotiated for some of Ian’s bombs, and he gave her two before she and her team left.
• Ian pulled the nearly four-meter crystal from the wall and hypnotized it into a nuclear bomb.
• Ian stored the nuclear bomb and decided he could now confront the powerful enemy at the bottom of the Ruins.

Ian and the others reached an ancient stone door after clearing the Malice Crystals, and Ging explained that nearby carvings depicted an ancient war against monsters. Ian used Telekinesis to open the door, revealing a descending passage from which a horde of grotesque monsters charged, and the group attacked.

• Ian encouraged Knov and assured him that he could defeat the powerful enemy ahead.
• The group cleared the Malice Crystals and reached an ancient stone door covered in carvings of a war against monsters.
• Ging explained that similar carvings appeared at other ruins but offered no direct account of the creatures.
• An Exorcism Team captain opened the stone door only slightly, but Ian used Telekinesis to push it fully open.
• The group heard creatures racing up the passage and attacked as a horde of grotesque monsters charged toward them.

Ian, Netero, Ging, and the others fought off an endless swarm of monsters in the ancient ruins until Ian's Toy Soldier Corps helped turn the battle around. A powerful, gaunt figure emerged and announced himself as a king from the past, then took Ging's Translation Konjac with Nen.

• Netero, Ging, Knov, Ian, and the other fighters battled the monsters pouring from the passage, but the prolonged fight exhausted the Hunters and Exorcism Team members.
• Ian summoned nearly a thousand Toy Soldiers, who reinforced the fighters and helped drive the monsters back.
• The monsters began retreating as a terrifying aura approached, and Netero, Ging, and Ian prepared for its arrival.
• A gaunt figure appeared, radiating immense Nen, and declared, "Humans of the present... a king from the past receives your audience..."
• Ian gave Ging sticky cake containing Translation Konjac, allowing Ging to understand the figure's words.
• The figure took the Translation Konjac from Ging's hand and asked whether someone had mixed their own will into the Nen-infused food.

Ging, Netero, and Ian faced a corpse-like monster from the ancient Gandor Dynasty, whose spatial transfer and reaction speed made it a formidable threat. After the monster praised Ian’s Translation Konjac and named him chief royal chef, it attacked Netero, while Ian prepared to use the Cursed Camera.

• The monster transferred Ging’s Translation Konjac without touching it, alarming Ging, Netero, and Ian with its apparent spatial ability and speed.
• Ging used his Rainbow Rabbit ability to create protective projections around himself, Netero, and Ian.
• The monster ate some of the Translation Konjac, understood its effects, and praised Ian’s creation before naming him the new chief royal chef of the Gandor Kingdom.
• Netero asked the monster why it had come to the present world, but it demanded respect and attacked him with an invisible force.
• Netero countered with his 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva while Ging watched for an opening and Ian took out the Cursed Camera to try to obtain the monster’s Cursed Doll.

Netero rejected King Gondor IV’s offer to join the Gandor Kingdom and vowed to stop his plans to restore the dynasty. Ian used the Cursed Camera to cripple the king, then joined Netero and Ging in a coordinated assault that left the king buried beneath a barrage of crystal bombs.

• King Gondor IV offered Netero a new life and argued that survival justified his desperate state, but Netero refused to let him disrupt the present world.
• King Gondor IV ordered his monsters to attack the Hunters and declared that they would restore the Gandor Dynasty.
• Ian told Ging and Netero to use his stickers and asked Ging to lower his barrier, then photographed King Gondor IV with the Cursed Camera.
• Ian’s curse weakened King Gondor IV’s power, and Ian snapped the head off the king’s Cursed Doll, twisting the king’s neck in the process.
• Ian threw crystal bombs at King Gondor IV as Ging and Netero struck him into the ground, and the bombs exploded in a massive blast that scorched the surrounding monsters.

Ian, Netero, and Ging struggled against King Gondor IV, whose black barrier withstood their attacks and whose deadly ability threatened anyone nearby. Ian retaliated with an endless artillery barrage, but when the Exorcism Team joined in, King Gondor IV killed ten members with a gesture.

• Netero, Ian, and Ging struck King Gondor IV with a powerful combined attack, but he survived behind a black barrier.
• Ging warned Ian and Netero that King Gondor IV could kill people within roughly thirty meters, and Ian realized his Disaster-Repelling Sticker had protected him.
• After King Gondor IV mocked him, Ian ordered the Toy Soldiers to help the Hunters and unleashed the Invincible Turret on him.
• King Gondor IV blocked the turret’s relentless shells, while Hunters and the Exorcism Team finished driving the pale-skinned monsters back through the gate.
• The Exorcism Team joined the bombardment, but King Gondor IV clenched his hand and caused ten members to collapse, bleeding from their mouths.

Ian bombarded King Gondor IV with Crystal Bombs, but the monster survived and continued to taunt him. Ian then threatened him with Godly Might No. 1, making King Gondor IV raise multiple defenses before Ian recalled the warhead and mocked him.

• King Gondor IV absorbed the spirits of the fallen Exorcism Team members and insulted Ian, who answered by attacking with Crystal Bombs.
• Ian unleashed nearly a thousand Crystal Bombs, scorching King Gondor IV and devastating the surrounding area, but Ging eventually asked him to stop.
• King Gondor IV survived the bombardment and threatened to make the humans his food, prompting Ian to bring out Godly Might No. 1.
• Ging, Netero, and the other Hunters warned Ian that detonating the warhead in the Ruins would kill them all, while King Gondor IV admitted Ian's strength and pleaded for him to stop.
• Ian threw Godly Might No. 1 toward King Gondor IV, who raised four black barriers, then recalled it and mocked the frightened monster.

Ian and the Hunters watched as Sashado escaped through a Netherworld Gate, taking the Ruins’ monsters with him. After the immediate crisis passed, strange Nen began spreading from the Ruins, and Elina sensed someone calling her.

• Sashado opened a Netherworld Gate using the remaining sacrifices and prepared to escape with the monsters.
• Ging failed to pull Sashado into Game World, and Ian could not find a way to stop him without detonating Godly Might No. 1.
• Sashado called himself King Gondor IV and warned the humans that the Gandor Dynasty would return before vanishing through the gate.
• The monsters sank into the ground and disappeared, leaving the thirty-three pillars behind in the Ruins.
• Strange Nen spread from deep within the Ruins, and Elina paused while playing with Aimon, sensing that someone was calling her.

Elina began hearing a voice call her Eluna, and her pink hair turned black. Machi suspected the change might be connected to the Nen beneath Ejin City and called Ian, who was in the Ruins after a battle.

• Elina heard a voice calling her Eluna and became frightened when it grew clearer.
• Machi found Elina and noticed that her pink hair had turned black.
• Elina told Machi about the voice, and Machi suspected a connection to the Nen beneath Ejin City and Ian's mission in Gugurian.
• Machi called Ian in the Ruins and told him that something had happened to Elina.

After Machi reported that something strange had happened to Elina, Ian brought Ging from the Ruins to Sharku Manor to help investigate. Elina described a disturbing hallucination that began when Sashado left, and Ging identified it as a possible case of Soul Seizure, prompting Ian to promise to protect her.

• Machi called Ian to report that something unusual had happened to Elina, so Ian asked Ging to come with him.
• Ian used the Anywhere Door to take Ging from the Ruins to Sharku Manor, where Ging marveled at the ability and reflected on how much he still had to learn about Nen.
• Ian and Ging found Elina and Machi, and Machi explained that Elina had heard strange things during a hallucination.
• Ian and Ging realized the incident had begun when Sashado left the Ruins, and Ian wondered if something was trying to take over Elina's soul.
• Ging recalled a Ruin Hunter's report of a similar case among the Jiyana Tribe called Soul Seizure, frightening Elina.
• Machi comforted Elina, and Ian vowed that he would not let anything harm her.

Ian and Ging realized that a force connected to Sashado and the Ruins might be targeting Elina, so they returned to investigate the true source of the Malice. At the Ruins, they learned that Netero and the others had continued deeper inside despite an earlier plan to withdraw.

• Ging explained that a recorded soul-stealing case had killed both the caster and the victim, showing the extreme risks of soul-related Nen abilities and suggesting that Elina's changing body was preparing for something's arrival.
• Ian and Ging suspected that the voice calling Elina “Eluna” and referring to a father meant Sashado, and Ian vowed to protect Elina.
• Ging revealed that Sashado had not caused the Malice leaking from the Ruins and that something else strange was hidden deep within them.
• Ian took out the Anywhere Door, and he and Ging returned to the Ruins of the Gandor Dynasty to find the source of the problem.
• A Hunter told Ian and Ging that Netero and the others had gone deeper into the Ruins after receiving an order from the chairman, and the two followed their route through an ancient stone door.

Ian and Ging found Saisitong unconscious in the Ruins and learned that an unseen force had manipulated the Hunters’ perceptions, while Netero had mysteriously disappeared. They joined Saisitong and drove deeper into the Ruins as Netero tried to break out of an enclosed chamber.

• Ian and Ging found Saisitong unconscious, and Ging used a Nen healing technique to wake him.
• Saisitong said the Hunters had followed a voice that altered their perceptions, and he had not seen Netero since Ian and Ging left.
• Ian and Ging decided to investigate, and Saisitong agreed to go with them despite his depleted Nen.
• Ian hypnotized a rock with the Nonliving Hypnosis Loudspeaker, turned it into a car, and the three traveled deeper into the Ruins.
• Netero found himself trapped in an enclosed space and struck the sturdy walls with the 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva, dislodging only a few fragments.

Trapped in a sealed cave, Netero reflected on his life and smashed through a rock wall, uncovering a pitch-black regular polyhedron. Meanwhile, Ian and Ging found hundreds of Hunters compelled to mine, moved them into Wallpaper Houses, and prepared to drill deeper into the Ruins with Godly Might No. 1.

• Netero conserved Nen while striking the cave wall with individual 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva palm techniques and recalled his past.
• Netero reaffirmed his resolve to cherish the present, strengthened his attacks, and uncovered a pitch-black regular polyhedron behind the wall.
• Ian, Ging, and Saisitong found Knov and hundreds of other Hunters mining in a ruined plaza, seemingly unaware of their surroundings.
• Ian and Ging carried the mining Hunters into four Wallpaper Houses to stop the hidden mastermind from directing them.
• Ian used the Nonliving Hypnosis Loudspeaker to create a large tunnel-boring vehicle and told Ging they would drill into the Ruins and plant Godly Might No. 1.

Ian and Ging uncovered a massive black prism beneath the Ruins of the Gandor Dynasty and suspected it was connected to an ancient God Script seal. They followed the mind-controlled Hunters toward another possible prism, while a chained girl murmured that two people had arrived.

• Ian and Ging used the Boring Machine to uncover a smooth, black prism that the drill could not pierce.
• They dug around the prism and found that it extended at least sixty meters into the Ruins before reaching a base marked with dense inscriptions.
• Ging recognized the inscriptions as ancient God Script and suspected the enormous prism was part of a sealing technique.
• Ian released the unconscious Hunters from the Wallpaper House, and they walked in a direction that Ian and Ging followed with the Boring Machine.
• In a strange space, a girl bound by at least thirty-three black chains murmured that two people had arrived.

Ian, Ging, and Netero discovered the black pillars at the heart of the Gandor Ruins and learned that a hidden entity was manipulating the Hunters. Ian began shrinking and collecting the pillars, provoking the entity into revealing its control over the others.

• Ian and Ging unearthed nine black pillars with the tunneling machine, then Netero broke through a rock wall and joined them beside a tenth pillar.
• Ging told Netero that an entity had hypnotized the people in the Gandor Ruins, and Ian said it wanted the pillars dug out and brought into the light.
• Ian brought Saisitong and the dazed Hunters out of the Wallpaper House, then used the Small Light to shrink and store the pillars.
• A hidden girl spoke in the ancient language, causing the Hunters and Exorcism Team members to freeze and order Ian to stop.
• Ian kept collecting the pillars and taunted the hidden entity, daring it to show itself.

Ian confronted the phantom of Amina Lian Gandor, who released the Hunters from her control and explained that the pillars helped suppress the Dark Creations beneath the Ruins. She revealed that Sashado was her father and warned that the creatures could awaken, leaving Ian to question her about Elina and Eluna.

• Ian threatened to take the remaining pillars until Amina Lian Gandor appeared and asked him to return them.
• Amina rang her black bell, freeing the Hunters from her control, and said she had used them to dig out the pillars.
• Amina identified Sashado as her father and warned that his awakening could destroy the present world.
• Amina explained that the pillars held her father's followers' souls and helped suppress the Dark Creations beneath the Ruins.
• Ian asked why Amina had sought Elina and who Eluna was.

Aimina revealed that Sashado had once been a near-omnipotent king whose power came from the faith of his followers, before dark creations overwhelmed him. The chapter ended with the corrupted Sashado surviving in a hellish world and vowing to bring his people back.

• Ian demanded to know who Eluna was and why she was connected to Elina, and Aimina said Eluna was her younger sister.
• Aimina explained that her father, King Gondor IV Sashado, could overpower Nen users by rewriting their perceptions and wills, and could reshape enormous amounts of matter.
• Aimina described how Sashado used his power to destroy the Toulouse Kingdom and lift a monster-infested island across the sea into the Gobi Desert.
• Aimina said dark creations from across the sea had brought about Sashado’s downfall.
• In a purgatorial world, Sashado killed an attacking monster, fed on its blood, and vowed to bring his people back.

Sashado crossed a monster-filled purgatory to gather souls, while Emina explained to Ian, Ging, and Netero how Fear-Eaters had brought down the Gandor Dynasty. Ian restored the black pillars that sealed the Ruins, and Kannari Rin prepared to report the new situation to the United States of Mito and the V5.

• Sashado trudged through the alternate space, gathering monsters so he could absorb their souls and reopen the Netherworld Gate.
• Emina told Ian, Ging, and Netero that the Fear-Eaters fed on fear, multiplied, and corrupted the Gandor Dynasty’s warriors.
• Emina explained that Eluna had used the royal family’s Xie Tools to seal the Fear-Eaters and the country, sacrificing herself and leaving her descendant Elina responsible for the seal.
• Ian returned the black stone pillars to their places and removed the Small Light’s effect, restoring them to their towering size.
• Kannari Rin recognized that the Ruins’ situation had changed and planned to send an update to the United States of Mito for the V5.

Ian and the others agreed to help Aimina uncover the remaining Xie Tools so she could awaken Eluna and reseal the Fear-Eaters beneath the Gandor Ruins. The story left Kannari Rin stunned after Ian explained the danger and challenged her to say whether she or the V5 could handle it.

• Aimina told Ian and Ging that they needed to uncover all thirty-three Xie Tools so she could awaken Eluna, and warned that the Fear-Eaters would grow more active as the pillars appeared.
• Ian questioned whether Aimina could be trusted, but agreed to help after she explained that the Fear-Eaters threatened the country and that she herself remained sealed away.
• Netero said the Fear-Eaters were likely creatures from the Dark Continent and agreed that they should follow Aimina's plan to reseal them.
• Kannari Rin asked Ian, Netero, and Ging what Aimina wanted, since she needed the information to decide how the V5's special forces should act.
• Ian explained the Gandor Dynasty's destruction and the danger beneath the ruins, then asked Kannari Rin whether she or the V5 intended to handle the threat.

Ian clashed with Kannari Rin over the V5’s authority and condemned the political system she served, then warned her that Sashado’s return threatened the leaders above her. After Ian left with Ging, Netero explained that Ian would not accept orders and that Kannari Rin lacked the power to resolve the crisis.

• Kannari Rin accused Ian of lying about the number of Nen users and demanded that he cooperate with the V5, but Ian refused to follow her orders.
• Ian criticized the V5 for sustaining a corrupt political structure and accused Kannari Rin and the Exorcism Team of serving it.
• The Exorcism Team aimed their Nen Guns at Ian, and Ian used telekinesis to rip the weapons from their hands.
• Ian warned Kannari Rin that Sashado’s appearance posed a threat beyond politics, then walked away with Ging.
• Netero told Kannari Rin that Ian had come without compensation, would accept no one’s orders, and was more important than anyone else present; Kannari Rin admitted she understood.