Chapter Summaries

Sashado used his restored power to raise a stone throne and relentlessly attack Netero with spikes, while Netero realized he could not defeat him and tried to ask Ian for help retreating. Ian instead tossed Netero a potion and hid with the others under the Invisible Cloak, leaving Netero facing Sashado with the Performance-Enhancing Liquid.

• Sashado raised a massive rocky mountain and throne, then demonstrated his control over the surrounding earth by sending spikes after Netero.
• Netero dodged the spikes and struggled to find an opening as Sashado blocked his approaches and healed with the black mud.
• Ian watched from a distance, checked that his Disaster-Repelling Sticker was secure, and decided not to confront Sashado directly.
• Netero recognized that he had reached his goal and began asking Ian for help, intending to retreat.
• Ian interrupted him by tossing him a bottle of Performance-Enhancing Liquid and claimed it would let him fight for another hour.
• Ian, Uvogin, Aimina, Biscuit, and the others hid inside the Invisible Cloak, while Netero clutched the potion and could not see them.

Netero used Ian’s Performance-Enhancing Liquid and regained his youthful strength, then charged Sashado. At Feilieka’s edge, the Ise Armed Forces planted a Glory Bomb as they sensed the battle’s danger.

• Sashado toyed with Netero, attacking him with weapons formed from nearby inorganic matter.
• Netero threw the Performance-Enhancing Liquid into the air, caught it, and sprayed it over himself.
• The liquid restored Netero’s youthful body and greatly increased his strength and Nen, exciting Sashado.
• The Ise Armed Forces reached Feilieka’s edge, sensed the danger ahead, and planted a Glory Bomb.
• Netero charged Sashado, who tracked his approach and prepared to fight seriously.

Netero fought Sashado, who used enormous constructs of rock to trap him and batter him with repeated blows. As Netero struggled inside the stone palm, the Ise Armed Forces advanced into Feilieka, resolved to destroy Peji’s work even if it cost them their lives.

• Netero struck Sashado, but Sashado blocked the punch with a crystal Rock Spirit.
• Sashado formed a giant rock hand and sent it crashing toward Netero, who punched through it.
• Sashado used the hand to seize Netero and repeatedly smashed it with a giant rock fist, trapping him amid violent vibrations.
• The Ise Armed Forces arrived and decided to destroy everything Peji had worked for, even if they died doing it.
• The Ise Armed Forces pressed forward, with two Roses still remaining.

Sashado trapped Netero inside a massive Rock Palm while Ian kept Biscuit from intervening. As troops approached the ruins of Feilieka, Chrollo concluded they were likely a separatist force manipulated by V5 to use a forbidden weapon against the monster.

• Sashado repeatedly struck Netero with a Rock Fist while sealing damage to the Rock Palm that held him captive.
• Biscuit wanted to rescue Netero, but Ian stopped her and said he would protect Netero if necessary.
• Ian noticed the Ise Armed Forces Faction approaching and wondered why ordinary soldiers had entered the ruined city.
• Chrollo reasoned that the soldiers were likely a separatist force seeking to capture Sashado, possibly with a powerful weapon backed by V5.
• Chrollo explained that V5 could mislead the separatists into using strategic weapons forbidden by anti-war regulations, impressing Biscuit with his analysis.

Ian and his companions discovered that the Ise Armed Forces were planting Poor Man's Rose bombs, apparently to use against Sashado. Ian ordered Aimina to immobilize the soldiers so he could investigate and take a bomb for study.

• Ian decided to leave Netero fighting Sashado and investigate the soldiers, while reassuring Biscuit that he would bring Netero back safely.
• Ian used the Anywhere Door to reach the Ise Forces and gave Biscuit, Uvogin, Nobunaga, and the others Blind Spot Stars to conceal them.
• Ian and his companions watched the soldiers dig pits and plant bombs, while Chrollo identified the weapons as Rose Bombs capable of spreading a powerful toxin.
• Ian recognized the Poor Man's Rose and considered taking one to study its power.
• Ian told Aimina to stop the soldiers without letting them notice the group, and crimson eyes began opening around her.

Ian used Aimina’s illusion to steal a Rose Bomb from the Ise Forces and replaced it with Godly Might No. 1, hoping it might harm Sashado. Netero escaped Sashado’s attacks and reached Ian’s group, where Ian protected him with a Disaster-Repelling Sticker.

• Aimina cast King’s Gaze of a Thousand Illusions on the soldiers, letting Ian take their Rose Bomb unnoticed.
• Ian stored the bomb and planted Godly Might No. 1 in its place as the Ise Forces advanced toward Sashado.
• Netero escaped Sashado’s Rock Palm but found himself pursued by enormous rock attacks and a field of spikes.
• Ian threw Netero a Disaster-Repelling Sticker, and Netero used it to avoid the advancing rock spikes.
• Netero met up with Ian and the others and paused to recover.

Ian restored Netero’s injuries as the Ise Forces approached Sashado carrying a Rose Bomb. Sashado captured the soldiers and demanded their surrender, but their leader Mokoki began detonating the bomb, and a red light flashed.

• Ian used the Time Cloth to heal Netero, then told him that the approaching Ise Forces appeared to be carrying a Rose Bomb.
• Sashado lost track of Netero and noticed the Ise Forces moving through the ruined city.
• Sashado flew toward the soldiers and used wires to bind them, ordering them to submit or die.
• Mokoki resisted Sashado’s offer and began operating the Rose Bomb while declaring his loyalty to the Ise Organization.
• Ian realized what Mokoki was doing, and a red light flashed.

The Poor Man's Rose devastated Feilieka City, but Sashado survived and began planning to seize humanity’s weapons. As he discovered the bomb had poisoned him, a second, stronger explosion engulfed him, while Ian wondered whether to return and inspect the blast.

• The Poor Man's Rose detonated, destroying much of Feilieka City and leaving the city covered in dust and ruins.
• Sashado survived the blast as monsters emerged from Black Mud and offered Nen to restore his body.
• Sashado formed crystal armor and resolved to conquer humanity to claim its weapons, but then realized the bomb had poisoned him.
• Sashado sensed danger, raised a Rock Spirit barrier, and was caught in a second explosion far more powerful than the first.
• At Sharku Manor, Ian wondered whether he should return to see the damage despite the radiation.

Ian returned to Sharku Manor with Netero, Biscuit, Uvogin, and the others after the Ise Forces prepared to detonate the Rose Bomb, then revealed that he had left a far more powerful nuclear bomb for Sashado. As Ian and Biscuit discussed whether the blast could kill him, Feilieka lay in ruins, though Sashado’s fate remained unknown.

• Ian used the Anywhere Door to take Netero, Uvogin, Biscuit, and the others from the scene to Sharku Manor, avoiding the Rose Bomb’s lingering toxin.
• Ian reasoned that the Ise Forces had likely abandoned Feilieka and said he had left a Godly Might No. 1 bomb for Sashado.
• Biscuit asked Ian what he thought of Sashado, and Ian explained that he expected the nuclear blast to inflict immense damage.
• Ian warned that if Sashado survived, V5 would need to take responsibility for stopping him and humanity could face an A+ Level calamity.
• Feilieka was reduced to a scorched ruin with two enormous craters, while Sashado’s survival was left uncertain.

Ian copied Netero’s ability as Netero prepared to report Sashado’s threat to the V5 and left Ejin City. Netero departed with Uvogin as his disciple, while Biscuit stayed behind and Ejin City’s residents came to revere Ian as their guardian.

• Ian used the Ability Copy Gloves while shaking Netero’s hand and copied his ability.
• Netero said he would report Sashado’s threat to the V5 and urge them to take responsibility, agreeing that individual humans could not handle him.
• Uvogin left with Netero’s approval as his disciple, and Netero accepted six bottles of Performance-Enhancing Liquid from him.
• Netero departed from Sharku Manor, while Biscuit stayed behind and teased Uvogin about his physique.
• Ejin City residents saw Ian help repair the city and began to admire and worship him as their guardian.

Ian interrogated Siming and Yuliya, using Feitan’s poison to force them to respond. After Siming agreed to give up information, Ian immediately killed him, leaving Yuliya shocked and still imprisoned.

• Ian visited the cell where Eluna had sealed and chained Siming and Yuliya, and considered Yuliya’s rare cultivation and achievement of the Extreme Realm.
• Ian ordered Feitan to make the prisoners understand their situation, and Feitan stabbed them with the poisoned Big Black Umbrella.
• Siming and Yuliya screamed in pain as the poison took effect, while Ian compared their endurance unfavorably to the Zoldyck Family’s.
• Siming offered to tell Ian what he wanted to know and asked to be killed afterward.
• Ian drew Nobunaga’s Tachi and beheaded Siming, shocking Yuliya while his companions accepted his decision.

After Ian revived Siming with the [Time Cloth], Siming remembered being killed and realized death had led to a terrifying, icy silence. The chapter left Siming desperate to live while Ian eagerly questioned him about what death felt like.

• Yuliya watched Siming’s severed head fall and believed Ian and his companions would eventually kill her too.
• Ian covered Siming’s headless corpse with the [Time Cloth], reversing his death and restoring him to life.
• Siming awoke, mistook his death for a nightmare, and feared his captors would kill him again.
• Ian asked Siming whether he remembered what had happened, and Siming recalled Ian killing him with a single slash.
• Siming realized death had been real and began desperately longing to live.

Ian listened as Siming, who revealed his name as Folar Sinkaya, begged for his life and offered his Nen ability in exchange for serving him. Ian accepted the offer, gaining control over Folar’s life and death, and Folar pledged himself to Ian.

• Siming prostrated himself before Ian and begged him to spare his life, saying that experiencing death had shown him how precious life was.
• Ian questioned Siming’s fear and refused to trust his pledge of service on its own.
• Siming offered Ian the two flames of his Ice-Flame Demonic Fire ability, explaining that accepting them would let Ian control his life.
• Eluna confirmed Siming could use his harmless ability despite her King's Edict: Hundredfold Demon Seal.
• Ian accepted the flames, which appeared as a mark on his shoulder and gave him the power to set Folar alight at will.
• Folar tearfully bowed to Ian and prayed that his new lord would watch over him.

Ian accepted Vollar’s submission and warned him that betrayal would earn him no second chance, while ordering him to show compassion toward those under his rule. After Eluna freed Vollar and Yuliya, Ian asked why the Scythe of Judgment had targeted him, and Vollar began revealing what he knew about V5’s hidden Nen user mobile units.

• Vollar remembered how his parents’ deaths destroyed his childhood faith in gods, and he came to regard Ian as a living god who had freed him from death.
• Ian accepted Vollar’s submission, told him to treat people under his rule with compassion, and warned him not to betray him.
• Ian told Vollar to stand and ordered Eluna to free him and Yuliya from their chains.
• Ian asked Vollar who had sent the Scythe of Judgment to target him, and Vollar began disclosing information about V5’s hidden Nen user mobile units.

Ian learned more about the V5’s special forces and pieced together how the teams’ actions had led to the Rose Bomb unit appearing in Feilieka. Meanwhile, Kannari Rin and Wilson were summoned to a V5 meeting, where they learned that Sashado had destroyed Feilieka City and posed an A-class disaster threat.

• Vollar named several powerful combat teams and explained that Bono Netani had assigned his team to investigate Ian.
• Ian concluded that Kannari Rin’s delayed report had led Vollar’s team to the Gandor Ruins, and learned they had fought Netero after being provoked by the Evil Mage and Flash Ghost.
• Ian reasoned that the team left behind at the Gandor Ruins had reported Sashado’s resurrection, prompting the V5 to act and sending a unit carrying Rose Bombs to Feilieka.
• Kannari Rin and Wilson met Berudo in Lusen and learned that Sashado had attacked Feilieka City, leaving no survivors.
• Berudo warned that Sashado’s threat could lead to humanity’s extinction, then escorted Kannari Rin and Wilson to the forty-third-floor conference hall, where V5 officials had gathered.

Kannari Rin briefed V5 officials on Sashado, the resurrected king whose monsters and lethal abilities threatened humanity, while withholding the identity of the person who drove him back. Bono Netani questioned her about a Special Forces unit that had clashed with Netero, revealing he had lost contact with them.

• Berudo brought Kannari Rin and Wilson to meet Akaru, who ordered Berudo to stay and urged Kannari Rin to report everything about the monster.
• Kannari Rin presented the Gandor Ruins footage and explained that Sashado controlled monsters and could kill creatures that came near him.
• When officials asked who had driven Sashado back, Kannari Rin said Netero had brought that person in and refused to reveal his identity.
• Bono Netani confronted Kannari Rin about whether the Exorcism Team had encountered other special operations teams.
• Kannari Rin said they met a Special Forces unit a day after Sashado had been driven back and that the unit had clashed with Netero.
• Bono revealed he had lost contact with the Scythe of Judgment and wondered where the unit and Sashado had gone.

Akaru presented footage of Sashado’s attack on Gemstone City Feilieka, showing Black Mud, Winged Dragons, and pale monsters overwhelming the city and its troops. The V5 officials were left facing the question of how to destroy Sashado, whose threat became the meeting’s focus.

• Bono tried to press Kannari Rin for answers, but Akaru took the floor and ordered Berudo to show the latest information.
• The footage showed Black Mud sweeping through a city at night, engulfing crowds as Skeletal Winged Dragons circled above.
• Daytime footage showed armored forces fighting Winged Dragons and pale humanoid monsters, while fallen soldiers rose again as monsters.
• Akaru identified the footage as real recordings of the destruction of Gemstone City Feilieka, delivered by a disciple of Netero.
• Akaru declared Sashado humanity’s greatest looming threat and said the meeting would address how to destroy him.

At Sharku Manor, Ian and the others trained by using sustained Nen to lift heavy rocks, a method that showed Biscuit a new way to use Nen as an offensive medium. After trying it herself, Biscuit challenged Aimina and Eluna, while Ian realized her abilities might help the group recover faster.

• While the V5 meeting in Lusen prepared the way for a future war against Sashado, Ian and the others continued their training at Sharku Manor.
• Biscuit recognized that lifting rocks with sustained Nen resembled Ken training and could turn Nen into a versatile weapon without relying on Hatsu.
• Biscuit tried the exercise and lifted a massive rock several meters, astonishing Uvogin, Nobunaga, and Ian.
• Biscuit eyed Aimina and Eluna and made her desire to fight them clear, but Aimina instead told Ian to replenish the Nen he had spent.
• Ian recalled that recovery took nearly eight hours and suddenly called out to Biscuit, startling her.

Ian and the others used Black Hole Fragments to devour an enormous feast, astonishing Biscuit, then Ian gave her a fragment preserved inside a cube of cut space. Biscuit eagerly accepted the gift and promised to help Ian, while he urged her not to make a fuss over it.

• Ian, Uvogin, Chrollo, and the others devoured a lavish feast, using Black Hole Fragments to suck distant dishes into their mouths.
• After the group finished every dish, Ian asked Biscuit to use her ability to restore them and remove their fatigue, and she agreed after asking how he knew about her power.
• Biscuit demanded to know how the group had eaten so much, and Ian showed her a Black Hole Fragment.
• Biscuit admired the fragment but refused to eat it, so Ian used the Cutting Knife and Fork to enclose it in a cube of space and gave it to her.
• Biscuit treasured Ian's unusual gift and promised to help him, while Ian told her she could have as many fragments as she wanted.

Ian gave Biscuit Black Hole Fragments, and she used Cookie-chan to massage the group until they fell asleep. While Ian rested, Biscuit asked Aimina about Nen in the Gandor Dynasty and challenged her to a fight.

• Ian gave Biscuit two Black Hole Fragments, including a medium-sized one that let her inhale nearby objects.
• Biscuit summoned Cookie-chan with Magical Esthetician and asked her to ease Uvogin and the others’ fatigue.
• Cookie-chan massaged Uvogin, Nobunaga, Chrollo, and the others until they fell asleep, then did the same for Ian.
• Biscuit asked Aimina whether Nen users in the Gandor Dynasty developed abilities for everyday use, and Aimina said they mainly focused on combat.
• Biscuit challenged Aimina to a one-on-one fight while Ian slept.