Chapter Summaries

Anna activated Holmes’s hidden mechanism, unfolding a selective divine domain that drew in eligible people while excluding demigods. Rimuru woke alone in a futuristic city, disguised as a coachman and tasked with finding his car and reuniting with his teammates.

• Anna sensed a call from the lake and, with magic power supplied by a Wraith, triggered the mechanism beneath the waterfall.
• The waterfall split apart as puzzle pieces assembled into a residual divine domain, and Sword Elder realized it barred demigods from entering.
• Ruksinth identified the domain’s entry rules, ordered her forces to track who had disappeared, and prepared to enter with a team to assist the Holy Son.
• Rimuru awakened alone in Holmes’s futuristic world, discovered he could still use his abilities, and tested several disguises.
• Rimuru decided to search for Lilith and then go meet the person whose voice seemed familiar, but realized Holmes had not told him where his car was.

Lilith recognized the research lab as a false domain built from memories and began attacking apparent NPCs to find her companions, while Ye Xiaoqian and Yutong became entangled in a criminal mission in the simulated world. The chapter left Lilith searching for her team and Ye Xiaoqian fleeing with Yutong as the Hunters approached.

• Lilith attacked Watson, learned that she and Watson had awakened as Lina and Professor Watson, and demanded to know where the others were.
• Lilith slammed Holmes into a wall, then ordered Watson to clear nearby NPCs so she could locate her companions.
• Rimuru followed the game’s rules and took a driverless ride to his appointment.
• Ye Xiaoqian woke among people whose codenames identified them as a hacker, Controller, Girl, and Postman, then learned from Yutong that the Girl was her friend.
• Yutong breached Ye Xiaoqian’s character firewall and helped her stall the Postman until the Controller triggered a citywide attack and opened a thirty-minute window.
• Yutong pulled Ye Xiaoqian away as the Hunters arrived and urged her to treat the situation like the beginning of a game.

Ye Xiaoqian and Yutong escaped the hotel while monitoring the team breaking into a nearby company, and they began to suspect that several teammates had extraordinary abilities. Their elevator opened onto a crowd of Hunters waiting for them.

• Ye Xiaoqian used a grappling hook to swing across the skyscrapers with Yutong, who showed her surveillance footage and a map suggesting the city was modeled on R'lyeh.
• Ye Xiaoqian and Yutong watched the Postman shoot armed men and the Doctor cut down three robots, while Yutong explained that she had tested the Doctor's medical abilities and suspected the Postman was extraordinary too.
• The Doctor recognized the Operator, but the Operator slapped her for repeating a line she hated; the Postman then asked Kaguya whether the Operator seemed familiar, making Kaguya fear her identity had been exposed.
• Ye Xiaoqian and Yutong hacked an elevator and killed the people inside, then rode it toward the top floor.
• The elevator doors opened onto a mass of Hunters waiting for Ye Xiaoqian and Yutong.

Lilith’s group uncovered a real-world communicator and Anna used her inherited power to locate it, while Ye Xiaoqian and Yutong fled the Hunters. At the Hamsen Technology Building, Ye Fan mistook Kaguya for Yuki Onna, leaving Kaguya to play along with his guess.

• Ye Xiaoqian carried the exhausted Yutong while they escaped the pursuing hover trains, and Yutong focused on their plan without revealing her abilities.
• Lilith gathered Sasha, Anna, and Stet in the cleared base and realized Brent was missing from their team.
• Lilith helped Anna awaken Holmes’s Illusion-Piercing ability, and Anna quickly located a silver communicator Stet had mistaken for a pen.
• Lilith used the communicator to initiate contact, then told Stet to answer while posing as Holmes.
• Ye Fan concluded that Kaguya was Yuki Onna, and Kaguya pretended to agree with him.

Ye Fan and his team reached Hamson Corporation’s target room, but found a corpse and no sign of the item as Hunters surrounded them. Meanwhile, an officer contacted Stet, who was posing as Holmes, and revealed that the S-class criminals were not the murderers.

• Yutong confirmed the team’s identities, hacked Hamson Corporation’s systems, and guided Ye Fan’s group through the building.
• Ye Xiaoqian and Yutong were attacked by powerful combatants, learned that the world’s NPCs adapted to their abilities, and fled toward the designated meeting point.
• Ling Ling, Ye Fan, Kaguya, and Lin entered the target room and found wrecked equipment and a corpse, then searched for the missing item.
• Hunters surrounded the group and Yutong warned them to escape without using their abilities, while Ye Xiaoqian fought shadow users who kept being replaced.
• Lilith passed Stet a phone, and an officer contacting him as Holmes said the S-class criminals were not responsible for the murder.

Lilith took on the investigation into Hamson Corporation’s stolen secret and advised the police to blame the S-rank criminals publicly while pursuing the item. Meanwhile, Rimuru learned that his role in the world was a well-connected, neutral taxi driver, and he remained eager to see how the Moriarty case unfolded.

• Lilith questioned the officer and learned that Hamson Corporation wanted its missing item recovered, while the police had no proof that the invading criminals were the real murderers.
• Lilith told the officer to identify the S-rank criminals as the murderers for public purposes and focus the investigation on finding the stolen item.
• Lilith explained to Anna and Stet that detectives often served their employers rather than pursuing the truth, and she suspected the criminals were Superhumans tied to the world’s main storyline.
• Lilith checked her contacts and noticed Coachman, while Rimuru lounged in his hovercar as Great Sage finished analyzing the world.
• Great Sage explained that Rimuru had no bounty because he was officially a neutral transport provider, despite his connections to criminals, corporations, and political elites.
• Rimuru got excited about the Moriarty organization and his supposed criminal ties, then realized his role amounted to being a taxi driver.

Rimuru analyzed the Hunters’ rules while Ruksinth discovered she could corrupt their order-based world with chaos. After Ling Ling and her companions fought their way to the meeting point, Rimuru rescued them in his hovercar and fled into the Shadow World, where he picked up Ye Xiaoqian.

• Rimuru and Great Sage concluded that the Hunters acted like a world immune system and that the squad’s S-rank wanted status meant Sequence 5 Hunters would pursue them.
• Ruksinth corrupted a white door and its surroundings, learning that chaos could damage the Hunters’ rules, then planned to invade the firewall’s core.
• Lin used his sword domain to destroy the Hunters surrounding Ling Ling, Ye Fan, and Kaguya, and the group continued toward their meeting point.
• Rimuru decided to keep his identity hidden and arrived at the meeting point as Ling Ling’s group was forced to reveal her distinctive flames while escaping.
• Rimuru shielded the group, launched the hovercar into high-speed stealth mode, and blasted through the Hunters in the Shadow World.
• Rimuru picked up Ye Xiaoqian, who excitedly asked to hack into the car.

Rimuru delivered Ye Xiaoqian and her companions to a criminal safe zone while explaining how abandoned lands evaded the Hunters’ surveillance. After Lilith failed to use Suggestion on him, she hired him as a transporter, and Rimuru left the group at Moriarty’s base while reflecting on secrecy and Holmes’s inner world.

• Rimuru explained that people could evade the Hunters by entering abandoned lands, though S-rank criminals risked drawing real Hunter agents to their refuge.
• Lilith contacted Rimuru about the Hamson Corporation incident and used Suggestion on him, but Alaya’s protection made him immune.
• Lilith asked Rimuru to help with operations as needed, and he agreed to the usual rate without specifying it.
• Rimuru delivered Ye Xiaoqian and her companions to Moriarty’s abandoned military base and told them to send his regards to their boss.
• Rimuru drove away and wondered whether Holmes’s crime-filled inner world reflected loyalty to Lilith, concluding that secrecy was the place the Hunters’ surveillance could not reach.

Ling Ling revealed that the mission concerned seven World Shards and that her own shard had drawn the team into the constructed world. Kaguya was mistaken for Rimuru, then exposed as an accidental outsider, leaving the team wondering how she had entered.

• Ling Ling and the others suspected their unseen driver was a supernatural being, while Kaguya secretly learned that Rimuru and her companions were moles for the Hidden Alliance.
• Kaguya saw Moriarty with Snow Woman and tried to flee, but Ling Ling and the others caught her, mistaking her for Yuki Onna.
• The team realized Kaguya had joined them by mistake and questioned why she had been brought into the mission.
• Ling Ling explained that the mission involved seven puzzle pieces, and that her shard had drawn trusted companions into the world.
• Ye Fan ruled out Kaguya as a shard inheritor, while Ye Xiaoqian and Yutong suspected Rimuru was one.

Rimuru investigated the murder at Hamson Corporation, then took Lilith and her group to the crime scene, where they also found signs of multiple killers. Meanwhile, Yutong spotted Holmes in her surveillance footage, prompting Ye Xiaoqian to urge Yuki Onna to act as Moriarty.

• Rimuru entered the sealed crime scene with Enter the Void and used Great Sage to analyze the corpse and the signs of a struggle.
• Great Sage accessed the victim’s data and found that most information in the world could be traced despite the power of secrecy.
• Lilith called Rimuru to pick up her group, and Anna warned everyone that looking at him with an ability felt dangerous.
• Rimuru brought Lilith’s group to Hamson Corporation, where Lilith concluded that multiple murderers had fought at the scene.
• Yutong reported that her surveillance nano-mosquitoes had been destroyed after capturing an image of Holmes.
• Ye Xiaoqian urged Yuki Onna to take the role of Moriarty and investigate.

Sasha deduced how the victim was killed and identified David as a key suspect, while Rimuru and Great Sage considered supernatural alternatives. The investigation was interrupted when the Bromfield Family arrived, and a girl confronted the One-Eyed Bishop, who recognized her as a Succubus and a Hell hound steeped in desire.

• Anna noticed that the room was filled with supernatural auras, while Sasha deduced that the victim was killed by an acquaintance and that another intruder took the missing item.
• Sasha reasoned that the killer was likely left-handed and linked to the victim, then argued that multiple intruders may have entered through the high-rise window.
• Great Sage considered telekinesis and other possibilities, identified David as a key figure, and explained to Rimuru that intelligence did not rise automatically with supernatural power.
• Police began screening suspects before an explosion injured two officers, whose hands quickly healed.
• The One-Eyed Bishop and Hamson Corporation's upper management arrived, and the girl accused them of hypocrisy over the victim's death.
• The girl awakened the police officers and the Bishop's subordinates, and the One-Eyed Bishop recognized her as a Succubus and a Hell hound steeped in desire.

Lilith attacked The Church after the One-Eyed Bishop tried to take the corpse, revealing her demigod-level power and killing him as the Hunters were alerted. The Church’s remaining members fled toward the exit, where Rimuru blocked their way.

• Lilith told the factions to keep their conflict away from the crime scene, but the One-Eyed Bishop moved to seize the corpse.
• Rimuru assured Lilith that he could get them away from the Hunters, and Lilith trapped the One-Eyed Bishop with blood magic.
• The One-Eyed Bishop opened his hidden eye and used its power to break free, but Lilith’s Blood Burst killed him after he triggered the building’s alarm.
• Lilith warned Hell’s faction that the Hunters were coming and reminded them to honor their agreement to clear the other obstacles together.
• The Church’s four remaining members broke through Sasha and the others’ formation and rushed toward the exit, where Rimuru stopped them.

Rimuru revealed his identity to Lilith by using Formless Tribulation Extinction against the fleeing Church members, and the confrontation exposed that Heinna had become the reincarnation of Raphael. The Hell faction withdrew after Lilith explained the rule protecting faction heirs, while Emily realized the Truth Society was missing from the standoff outside the Great Waterfall.

• Rimuru stopped five Church members with Formless Tribulation Extinction, but one man sacrificed himself to protect the others after the young girl’s Sacred Protection shattered.
• Lilith recognized Rimuru as the Coachman and told the Hell faction that the Church’s heir had not used resurrection magic.
• The girl’s invocation of God the Father summoned Raphael, and Lilith and the Hell leader realized Raphael had reincarnated through Heinna.
• Lilith released the Church members and explained that heirs could not be killed without risking a ruinous battle among the seven factions.
• The Hell leader clung to Rimuru and asked whether he believed in fate.
• Outside the Great Waterfall, Emily surveyed the waiting factions and realized she had forgotten about the Truth Society.

Rimuru, Lilith, and Sylphiel investigated why the Hunters had not responded, while Ling Ling’s group discovered that Divine Radiance Industries had deployed Arsenal Nation and moved to rescue its targets. The chapter left Raphael and her companions surrounded by Arsenal Nation’s forces, with its user threatening to take Raphael captive for study.

• Sylphiel approached Rimuru, but Lilith dragged her away before she could touch him.
• Rimuru and Lilith suspected that someone had concealed the building from the Hunters, then rushed outside after a shrill sound shattered the windows.
• Ling Ling’s group returned to surveil the crime scene and learned that the building’s information was being erased; they realized Divine Radiance Industries might have deployed Arsenal Nation.
• Yutong’s attempt to observe the street was forcibly expelled from the information world when civilians transformed into robots, and Ling Ling decided the group would rescue the four defeated people to gain allies and intelligence.
• Arsenal Nation’s user cornered Raphael and three priests, declared that he could alter the world’s data, and offered to spare the others if Raphael entered his nation.
• Raphael recoiled when the man said he was interested in studying her body.

A man in a white suit used Arsenal Nation to attack the Church’s Raphael, but Ye Xiaoqian rescued her and fled into the Shadow World before he pursued them. As the battle continued, Magician’s team watched and Oakes explained that Seekers of Truth had grown into a powerful academic clique whose influence troubled him.

• The suited man attacked Raphael and the three priests with Arsenal Nation’s mechanical troops, killing one priest and demanding that Raphael surrender.
• Ye Xiaoqian appeared under cover of a Shadow Dragon, grabbed Raphael, and escaped with her into the Shadow World.
• The suited man invaded the Shadow World and struck Ye Xiaoqian and Raphael out of it with a mechanical fist, revealing that he possessed Perfect Mech Sense but was not a mechanic.
• Yutong and Ye Fan attacked the suited man, but Arsenal Nation’s automated demigod-level shield blocked Ye Fan’s cannon while Ye Xiaoqian dismantled a nanomachine hand choking her.
• Magician’s team watched the fight, and Oakes told Magician he would leave if the team chose to sell an alliance.
• Oakes reflected that Seekers of Truth had become an academic clique built on apprentice relationships and shared interests, an atmosphere he considered harmful to magicians.

Arsenal Nation deployed its Mechanical Angel and overwhelmed Xia Country’s team until Lisa and Lina intervened with magic that disrupted machinery and displaced their allies. As Magician and Astrologer prepared a retreat, Rimuru arrived, recognized the Great Library’s Omni-Cube, and suddenly fixed his attention on something with killing intent.

• Oakes revealed that Arsenal Nation possessed demigod-level machines, and the Mechanical Angel descended, tearing through Xia Country’s defenses and purifying Snow Woman.
• Magician sent Lisa to attack with a pulse that disabled machinery across Arsenal Nation, while Lina used Word Spirit Magic to repel the suited Mech Warrior and teleport the group away.
• Magician and Astrologer opened the Omni-Cube, broke the force-field barrier, and began preparing a group teleportation spell for the survivors.
• Rimuru, Lilith, and the others emerged after the machinery blocking transmissions was destroyed, and Lilith identified the Omni-Cube as a Finnish national treasure wielded by the Great Library.
• Rimuru surveyed the battlefield, then turned icy and stared in one direction as killing intent surged.

Rimuru intervened to protect Ye Xiaoqian and the others, then pursued the Mech Country Lord to take Arsenal Nation for Yutong. After the group escaped, Rimuru attacked the Lord, ending the chapter as his water-form unleashed a massive electric shock against the Lord’s nano armor.

• Rimuru sent his Avatar toward Arsenal Nation and told Lilith he planned to seize it for Yutong using Devour Law.
• Rimuru’s clone arrived on the battlefield and blasted the Mech Country Lord away, giving Magician time to teleport Ye Xiaoqian, Ling Ling, and the others to safety.
• Magician revealed that his Omni-Cube held more than two demigod-level spells, while Ling Ling declared that Rimuru was their trump card.
• Rimuru pursued the Mech Country Lord, struck him with Mountain-Breaking Strike, and found that his armor remained undamaged.
• Rimuru transformed into water, clung to the Mech Country Lord’s nano armor, and began shocking him with hundreds of millions of volts.

Rimuru revealed his true form and used Dan’s equipment-destroying ability and void aura to attack the Mech Warrior, while Great Sage began analyzing the Arsenal Nation. He left the Mech Warrior’s protective defense largely intact and prepared to keep fighting after learning he had threatened Rimuru’s teammate.

• Rimuru destroyed the Mech Warrior’s force-dispersing device, transformed into his True Name Liberation form, and struck him hard enough to destroy sensors in his jaw.
• Rimuru explained that Dan could break equipment, then used his void aura to consume the Mech Warrior’s summoned steel fist and sever its connection to the Arsenal Nation.
• Rimuru used a Flying Thunder God mark to catch the Mech Warrior in midair and formed his own Titan Fist while the onlookers recognized his power and Sylvester noticed a trace of time affinity.
• Great Sage’s Arsenal Nation permission analysis reached 2.0086% as Rimuru continued attacking to encourage the Mech Warrior to summon more constructs.
• Rimuru realized the Arsenal Nation’s protection still kept the Mech Warrior’s health nearly intact, but he vowed to keep fighting because the Mech Warrior had threatened his teammate.

Rimuru fought the Mech Warrior with increasingly overwhelming magic while the others realized he was deliberately destroying Arsenal Nation’s forces in retaliation for the threat against Ye Xiaoqian. As the Mech Warrior summoned more weapons and troops from Arsenal Nation, Lin began drafting a response to Divine Radiance Industries’ protest.

• Rimuru trapped the Mech Warrior between rising slabs of mantle, but the Mech Warrior burst through them with his qi force and taunted Rimuru.
• Rimuru unleashed vines with Demonic Tree World Descent, absorbing the Mech Warrior’s qi force and forcing him to charge at close range.
• Ye Xiaoqian concluded that Rimuru was clearing out Arsenal Nation’s mechanical army and intended to destroy Arsenal Nation because its forces had threatened her.
• Rimuru’s vines drove the Mech Warrior to summon spinning blades, a psionic cannon, and flame robots from Arsenal Nation, which delighted Rimuru.
• Lin offered Ling Ling his help, then began drafting a response to Divine Radiance Industries’ protest.

Rimuru battled the Mech Warrior while Great Sage worked to seize control of Arsenal Nation, and Lilith lent Rimuru power through the Blood Moon. As allies attacked Arsenal Nation’s forces, Lina joined Rimuru and declared that she wanted to cooperate, while the Mech Warrior prepared to unleash more weapons.

• Rimuru used the Devour Law against the Mech Warrior as Great Sage slowly analyzed Arsenal Nation’s permissions and explained what progress it needed to control the Mechanical Angel.
• Lilith linked the Blood Moon to Rimuru and poured her power into him, while Ruksinth watched the display from the chaos-filled Hunters’ headquarters.
• Ling Ling, Magician, Astrology, and Raphael decided to help Rimuru by attacking Arsenal Nation’s remaining forces.
• Lina used her Words of Power to freeze the Mech Warrior, allowing Rimuru to land a heavy punch, then conveyed that she wanted to cooperate with him.
• The Mech Warrior rose, removed and shattered his sunglasses, and summoned silver weapons behind him.