Chapter Summaries

Rimuru faced Long Ruoqing and the Light Chasers’ captains as she purged senior leaders and offered him a captaincy. He rejected a standard post and demanded an autonomous squad with national privileges and resources, leaving Long Ruoqing to answer his proposal.

• The Sword Elder and Long Ruoqing ended their standoff with Rimuru, and Long Ruoqing offered him a captaincy while deciding to dismiss several veteran captains.
• Long Ruoqing used her Dragon Might to force the captains to confront the gap in strength, then argued that their long service did not justify keeping positions without continued contributions.
• Ling Ling handed Captain Chen records of the interest groups behind the captains, and he accepted Long Ruoqing’s decision before leaving.
• Rimuru recognized that Long Ruoqing’s public decision showed her sincerity, but said his demands had grown since his previous negotiations.
• Rimuru demanded an autonomous squad with freedom to recruit and access to national resources, then struck down an old captain who called it a private army and asked Long Ruoqing what she thought.

Rimuru negotiated authority for a new squad, and Sword Elder secured him a classified unit under Town Mountain River while Long Ruoqing retained approval over its decisions. Rimuru named the squad Sprout and began recruiting Yuki Onna, leaving himself facing new reporting duties.

• Rimuru asked for an autonomous squad, and Sword Elder offered him a designated unit in Town Mountain River in exchange for merit while vouching for him.
• Long Ruoqing agreed to grant Rimuru a squad with authority subject to her approval, and Rimuru named it Sprout, the dawnlight of all things reborn.
• Rimuru told Ye Fan that Sprout would accompany him into the void, and Ye Fan reacted with shock to the name.
• Long Ruoqing said Rimuru's summons and identification would arrive in a week and that members from existing squads would be transferred into Sprout.
• Rimuru brought Ling Ling to recruit Yuki Onna, who began filling out her information while Ling Ling told Rimuru he would need to write reports about his worlds and squad members.

Rimuru secured a captaincy in the Light Chasers and discussed individuality and the collective with Ling Ling, while Yuki Onna joined Rimuru’s team. Yuki Onna left for a Supernatural Paradise mission, and Ling Ling encountered Ye Fan, who revealed he had been tracking her through one of his subordinates.

• Rimuru assured Yuki Onna that the team’s files would remain secret, then challenged Ling Ling’s view that the collective should guide and shape its members.
• Ling Ling explained Rimuru’s captaincy, authority, and lack of a private legion; Rimuru accepted the arrangement and received a captain’s watch.
• Rimuru invited Yuki Onna to join her small team, and Yuki Onna offered Rimuru a place to stay before leaving for her mission.
• Snow Woman reminded Yuki Onna that her Supernatural Paradise mission deadline was three days away, and Yuki Onna departed after saying she now had a reason to return.
• Ling Ling found Ye Fan waiting in Lin’s car, and Ye Fan admitted that his subordinate had helped him learn about her visit.

Ling Ling grew wary of Rimuru’s ability to inspire loyalty after Ye Fan revealed that Ye Xiaoqian might follow him. Meanwhile, Rimuru realized he could profit by manufacturing weapons and received a remote visit from Harrison.

• Ye Fan told Ling Ling that he might thank Rimuru for making Ye Xiaoqian willing to join the Light Chasers, and Ling Ling ordered him out of the car.
• Ye Fan admitted that Rimuru had won him over when he mentioned Sprout, while Ling Ling told Lin she feared Rimuru’s ability to turn people’s desires and ideals into loyalty.
• Rimuru worried that he lacked goods to trade with the Black Merchant until Kihara Tsumiki pointed out that he could manufacture and sell Sequence 6 weapons in bulk.
• Rimuru calculated that weapon production could earn him a substantial income and celebrated his newfound business opportunity.
• Harrison requested remote spiritual access, and Rimuru welcomed him into the living room with Kihara Tsumiki present.

Rimuru received a costly delivery from Nine Tails containing God Power Crystals and a god-level Dark Star seed, then negotiated with Harrison over auctioning some of the crystals. The chapter ended with Rimuru forcing Harrison to lower the handling fee after learning Nine Tails had already arranged a discount.

• Harrison delivered Nine Tails's sealed package to Rimuru and explained that the Void transport fee was paid through auction rights.
• Rimuru opened the package and found six God Power Crystals, consumables, and a Dark Star seed that resonated with his Devour Law.
• Rimuru realized Nine Tails had sent the Dark Star seed as a deeply valuable gift and worried that her family might retaliate over it.
• Rimuru kept the Healing Angel Raphael and Water Angel Jibril (Gabriel) crystals and offered the other four to Harrison for auction.
• Nine Tails appeared in a recording and said she had cut the Black Merchant's handling fee in half and was organizing hunts for a Void Sky-Swallowing Whale.
• Rimuru challenged Harrison over the fee, and Harrison lowered it from seven point five percent to five percent.

Rimuru negotiated with Harrison over God Power Crystals and a long-term deal for weapons he forged. He proposed selling the weapons below market price to seize Extraordinary Space’s equipment market, leaving Harrison shaken by the scale of Rimuru’s ambitions.

• Rimuru rejected Harrison’s argument for a five-percent commission and offered to discuss another collaboration.
• Rimuru showed Harrison the Spiral Sword and Qiu Yuan Staff and offered to supply at least fifty weapons a month.
• Harrison agreed to waive commission on the goods if Rimuru let the Black Merchants auction the God Power Crystals.
• Rimuru offered a ten-percent commission on the condition that Harrison sell the weapons for ten to twenty percent below market price.
• Rimuru explained that he intended to seize a market monopoly and hinted that his ambitions extended beyond wealth, leaving Harrison alarmed.

Rimuru returned to New York, spoke with Anna about the supernatural world, and learned that Emily wanted him for a dangerous mission abroad. He agreed to take Anna along so she could confront the danger herself, but told Emily he trusted the Night Watch and not her.

• Rimuru decided to save the Jet-Black Seed and considered using Water Angel Jibril's God Power Crystal to make a Mystic Code for Eler.
• In New York, Brent explained to Anna that public protests and political changes remained under supernatural control, then Rimuru took over the clone and continued the conversation.
• Rimuru read Ye Xiaoqian's email and told her he had also reached Sequence 6.
• Emily arrived with coffee and asked Rimuru to join a paid mission abroad, promising to protect Anna while he was gone.
• Rimuru offered to let Anna join the mission on the condition that she survive it, and told Emily that he could not trust her.

Rimuru defended Anna’s chance to choose her own future and negotiated a mission with Emily, while Ruksinth and Oakes discussed the Holy Son who had killed her. In The City of Magic, Rimuru reunited with his former-life father and Jiang Rui, then fought an unsettling urge to reclaim his old family by eating Jiang Rui.

• Rimuru told Emily that Anna should be allowed to learn the truth about the extraordinary and choose her own path after the mission.
• Ruksinth recognized Brent as the Holy Son who had activated the Last Piece of the Puzzle, while Oakes vowed to kill him despite Ruksinth’s infatuation with him.
• Rimuru walked through his old neighborhood in The City of Magic and reflected on his past, his return, and the possibility that fate was guiding him.
• Rimuru’s former-life father approached him when he saw him crying, and Jiang Rui arrived to help comfort him.
• Rimuru felt hostility toward Jiang Rui and wondered whether eating him could restore his parents, but Ciel reminded him that he was now Rimuru Tempest.

Rimuru chose to observe Jiang Rui’s life from a distance, then prepared to travel to England with Anna while supernatural leaders debated the Purified and the threat posed by The Truth Society. The chapter ended with Sword Elder supporting a bill to make supernatural beings public.

• Rimuru used suggestion to alter the crowd’s memories and let Jiang Rui and his father leave, deciding to watch their failed life as an observer.
• Rimuru warned Anna about the dangers of London, then used suggestion to make everything she ate taste like shit as punishment for eavesdropping.
• Rimuru and Anna boarded Emily’s private jet for England, where Rimuru planned to investigate the dead detective’s legacy as Emily warned him about The Truth Society.
• At the Holy Chessboard, the White King described the organized Twisted Ones and rumors of a Holy Son and Holy Maiden, while Queen Elizabeth argued that the Purified might retain their rationality.
• The White King revealed that The Truth Society’s Holy Maiden had gone to England, prompting Queen Elizabeth to leave the meeting immediately.
• As the representatives discussed an American bill, Sword Elder announced that he had come to support making supernatural beings public.

Rimuru and Anna investigated a twisted presence in London and suspected that The Truth Society was involved. Meanwhile, Sasha Moriarty helped Sto Holmes, and Rimuru realized Watson might connect the old feud between Holmes and Moriarty to the current conflict.

• Rimuru arrived in London with Anna and followed a twisted aura into the old district instead of relying on the Iron Throne's intelligence network.
• Sasha Moriarty deciphered Sto Holmes's message, revealed their ancestors' covenant, and warned him that seeking help bound him to the Esoteric Alliance.
• Sasha and the crow reached a meeting place, but the crow hesitated to see its old friend, the Blood Moon Princess.
• Rimuru sensed an illusion left by an aberration and concluded that someone had suppressed it without leaving signs of public treatment.
• Rimuru and Anna considered why Emily had sent them after The Truth Society and realized Watson was missing from the history connecting Holmes, Moriarty, and Bat.
• Rimuru suspected that Watson's descendant might soon face the descendants of Holmes and Moriarty as the Hidden Alliance unified.

Sasha and Sto met Lilith, who used a Blood Pact to promise protection for Sto, while warning them not to seek the truth behind the danger. Elsewhere, Rimuru confronted the resurrected Ruksinth, who revealed that she had returned at Sequence 9 and hinted that his growing strength could give them a future together.

• Sasha and Sto entered Lilith’s dusty, abandoned home and found her waiting in the attic.
• Lilith recognized Sasha’s connection to Ram and warned that the true Old Gods were awakening and would judge the Old Ones.
• Lilith explained the Blood Pact and used it to swear that she would protect Sto until his troubles were resolved.
• Rimuru detected hundreds of distorted people surrounding him and Anna, then identified Ruksinth as the attacker when she ambushed them.
• Rimuru blasted Ruksinth apart with Atomic Collapse, but she regenerated, and he realized she had been resurrected at Sequence 9.
• Ruksinth faced Rimuru’s gathering thunder and said that his strength made their future more likely.

Rimuru discovered that The Truth Society had gathered powerful Twisted Ones in London to witness a ritual proclaiming him their Holy Son, a role he rejected. Ruksinth declared the Purified would support him regardless, then forcefully kissed him.

• Rimuru fought Ruksinth and the aberrations, killing her briefly with a spear before her head regenerated.
• Ruksinth ordered a Twisted One to break Anna’s barrier, exposing her to the charging aberrations.
• Rimuru unleashed his Demon Lord Intimidation and Fantasy Domain, stopping the aberrations and making them obey him.
• Ruksinth revealed that Rimuru was the Holy Son of The Truth Society and that the assembled Twisted Ones had come to witness the ritual.
• Rimuru rejected the role, but Ruksinth vowed the Purified would support him and then kissed him without consent.

Rimuru survived Ruksinth’s supernatural attack and learned that the Night Watch sought Holmes’s Memory Palace while he sought Watson’s Sealed Artifact. Following the lead she gave him, he searched for Holmes’s descendants with Anna, but the trail ended at a hidden compartment containing strange purple lightning.

• Ruksinth kissed Rimuru, withdrew her aberrations, and revealed that the Night Watch wanted Holmes’s Memory Palace while Watson’s relic was the Sealed Artifact Rimuru sought.
• Ruksinth gave Rimuru a USB drive containing information about Holmes’s descendants and escaped through a wall of black liquid as the distortions vanished.
• Rimuru and Anna reached the address, found that Kahas Sto Holmes’s home had been searched and that he had been active there that morning, then followed his information trail into an alley.
• Rimuru’s attempt to track Kahas Sto Holmes failed when the Blood Moon’s power interfered with fate, and he found a hidden compartment with violently unstable residual energy.
• Rimuru touched the residual energy with azure lightning, which turned purple and slipped beyond his control.

Rimuru used a dangerous summons to draw Lilith out, then arrived at her home, where she was protecting Sto and Sasha Moriarty. Ruksinth and Watson discussed how Moriarty's power might solve Holmes's riddle, while Lilith's reunion with Rimuru ended with him lifting her by the collar.

• Rimuru deduced that Ruksinth had gained an Old One's protection and called Lilith home, prompting her to strike him with a blood-red storm.
• Lilith protected Sto and Sasha Moriarty, warned them that a man was coming, and said Holmes had left knowledge and resources in his Memory Palace.
• Ruksinth returned wounded to Watson's underground laboratory and admitted that the Holy Son might misunderstand her because he was close to Lilith.
• Watson told Ruksinth that Moriarty's power could solve Holmes's riddle in reverse, and Ruksinth begged Watson to help her approach the Holy Son.
• Rimuru reached Lilith's home, kicked away a shadow apparition, and lifted Lilith by the collar as she woke.

Rimuru questioned Lilith about the relics and learned that Holmes's Memory Palace held a corrupted part of her that she needed to reclaim to survive. As Rimuru realized the mission involved a struggle over Holmes's inheritance and the Truth Society, Crow arrived to defend Sasha Moriarty, his contractor.

• Rimuru discovered that Lilith had shrunk and weakened, then gave her blood-infused tea after she failed to drain him.
• Lilith explained that she had arranged Rimuru's London mission with Nightmare and wanted the Memory Palace, which contained the part of her that had pursued truth and become corrupted.
• Lilith revealed that reclaiming her divided self might let her enter the Void and R'lyeh, while Rimuru suspected the Truth Society sought the Memory Palace for the same reason.
• Lilith said Watson's bloodline knew where Holmes's relics were, but Holmes's power was needed to unlock them; Moriarty could also serve as a key, drawing Sasha into the conflict.
• Crow arrived at the window and objected to Lilith using Sasha, his contractor, without asking him.

Lilith confronted Crow, revealed that he had lost his former power, and pushed him to accept responsibility for protecting his contractor. Sto chose to reclaim his grandfather's power, and Lilith took him to Extraordinary Street to retrieve the sequence she had left there. Back at the house, Rimuru asked Crow how to hide from fate's gaze before a royal owl arrived with a message for Yejiewen.

• Lilith seized Crow and challenged him over abandoning his past, while Rimuru explained that Crow could no longer decide for or protect his contractor.
• Sto declared that he wanted to inherit his grandfather's power, and Lilith took him to Extraordinary Street to retrieve his transcendent sequence.
• Crow told Rimuru that Lilith's Primeval Moon path could conceal information and that Mospheito's fate was watching him.
• A white owl carrying a message from the Queen arrived, but Crow and Rimuru threatened to cook it until it agreed to deliver the message.
• Sasha wondered whether boiled crow was edible after Crow proposed that she and Rimuru become contractors.

Rimuru met Ye Xiaoqian in R'lyeh and discussed forming a team, strengthening Kihara Tsumiki, and finding a craftsman to make a Mystic Code for Eler. Meanwhile, Ruksinth launched an attack on Buckingham Palace before Lilith could gather her subordinates.

• Lilith and the others learned that the Extraordinary Person Act had passed, and Lilith suspected Xia Country planned to use its population advantage to gain a place in R'lyeh's selection.
• Rimuru received Ye Xiaoqian's message and returned to R'lyeh, where she agreed to join his team and discussed their upcoming team mission.
• Rimuru asked Ye Xiaoqian to help Kihara Tsumiki confront her psychological trauma and to find a master craftsman to process his God Power Crystal for Eler's Mystic Code.
• Ruksinth confirmed her target and ordered thousands of aberrations and Twisted Ones to attack Buckingham Palace before Lilith could gather her subordinates.

As Lilith and the Esoteric Alliance crushed the attackers outside Buckingham Palace, Rimuru and Crow guarded Holmes and Moriarty inside. Oakes Durens of Golden Dawn broke through to demand the captives, while Ruksinth hurried to the palace after learning her brother had gone there.

• Crow explained that Lilith’s Esoteric Alliance had gathered followers of the Blood Moon and other powers, and that its Old Ones had agreed not to act despite their divisions.
• Rimuru and Crow watched Lilith’s forces repel the invasion while the enemy tried to seize Holmes and Moriarty amid the chaos.
• A demigod’s arrival drew Lilith and the palace guards away, and Rimuru realized the attack on the estate was a diversion to reach the captives.
• Oakes Durens and other Golden Dawn members broke through the warded wall and demanded that Rimuru hand over Holmes and Moriarty or die with them.
• Ruksinth learned that her brother Oakes was leading the raiding party and rushed toward Buckingham Palace, fearing for him rather than the Holy Son.

Rimuru unleashed his Blood Moon domain and fought Oakes as their rival domains transformed the battlefield. After turning Oakes’ storm and Fairy Forest against him, Rimuru began invading Oakes’ domain and seizing control.

• Rimuru tore down the barrier, fully transformed into a vampire, and activated his Blood Moon Territory against Oakes.
• Oakes revealed his Wind Fairy domain, Avalon, which empowered magic and made the world hunt outsiders.
• Sasha threw Crow into battle, and Crow attacked Oakes’ hooded companions while the fairy world turned hostile.
• Rimuru used Great Sage to convert Oakes’ storm into blood rain and gained the upper hand in their domain clash.
• Oakes cast the demigod-level spell Fairy Forest, but Rimuru countered with Sixth Tier: Plant Demonization.
• Rimuru’s spell turned the forest red as he began invading Oakes’ domain and taking control of it.

Rimuru defeated Oakes by transforming the domain with Blood Moon power and overpowering his World Tree Technique, but Rukqin Silk stopped him from killing Oakes by threatening to reveal that he was the Holy Son. Lilith learned that the demigod behind The Truth Society was an ancient druid who had once invited her to join him, and he hinted that she was still approaching the truth.

• Scholar revealed that he belonged to The Truth Society and stalled Crow while his companions went to help their Captain.
• Rimuru corrupted Fairyland's magic, reshaped the domain, and used its gathered faith and will to defeat Oakes and suppress the World Tree Technique.
• Rimuru prepared to kill Oakes, but Rukqin Silk threatened to expose him as the Holy Son, forcing him to stop.
• Lilith urged the unknown demigod to retreat after Oakes lost, but he accepted the defeat and renewed his invitation to her.
• Lilith recognized the demigod as the oldest druid, an Old One who controlled magic and had once helped establish the land's ancient laws.