Chapter Summaries

Shien kept the Streim Family from approaching Aiyi, but their conversation was interrupted when Capellin Ragna, the Ragna Empire’s Second Princess, confronted him. She carried a powerful replica of the Holy Sword and revealed the empire’s Hero ancestry before clashing with Shien.

• Shien explained that the Streim nobles likely wanted to connect with Aiyi, while Aiyi said she had no interest in them.
• Aiyi told Shien that the Ragna Empire had forged a unique Holy Sword replica using a Hero’s remains and that its founding emperor had been a Hero she defeated.
• Capellin Ragna arrived with female knights, surrounded Shien’s group, and demanded to know if he was Shien Poztut.
• Shien identified Capellin and used Appraisal to learn that her replica Holy Sword could only be wielded by a Hero Descendant.
• Capellin rebuked Shien for ignoring her, then struck at him, and Shien drew his Holy Sword to meet her attack.

Shien clashed with Imperial Princess Capeline after she attacked him and insulted Roxie, then demonstrated his strength with the Holy Sword and Enchantment Magic. Capeline recognized him as a worthy opponent and charged through his Flying Star attack, beginning their battle in earnest.

• Capeline struck Shien with the Replica Sacred Sword, and Shien blocked her attack with the sealed Holy Sword.
• Capeline revealed her hatred of Roxie and accused Shien of defending her to curry favor, prompting Shien to blast Capeline back with his magic power.
• Shien attacked Capeline with a powerful Holy Sword slash and bound the Shattered Blade Knights with Enchantment Magic.
• Capeline and Shien acknowledged each other's strength, and Capeline charged at him after declaring herself stronger.
• Shien cast Flying Star, but Capeline used Divert and defensive skills to push through the meteor shower toward him.

Shien overwhelmed Capeline in their duel, using his resistance and strength to defeat her attacks without Limit Break. After he taunted her by saying Roxie was stronger, Capeline’s magic power suddenly surged, leaving Shien startled.

• Shien raised Flying Star to maximum power, but Capeline advanced unharmed and changed the Replica Sacred Sword’s effect to boost her strength.
• Capeline used Flash Sword and Magic Sword to attack Shien, but he evaded her slashes with Instantaneous Movement and endured her magic with his resistance skill.
• Shien struck Capeline with a penetrating punch that sent her into a building wall, though the Replica Sacred Sword weakened the damage.
• Shien told Capeline she could not win and that Roxie was still stronger, causing Capeline’s hand to tremble as strange magic power stirred around her.
• Aiyi noticed the change, and a terrifying surge of magic power erupted behind Shien, shaking the earth.

Shien faced Capeline after she revealed her Unique Skill, which gave her powerful white wings and a dramatic boost in combat. As Capeline pressed her attack, Shien considered using the Holy Sword but had not yet gone all out.

• Capeline revealed her Unique Skill and explained how she had spent her life in Roxielusty's shadow, determined to defeat her and the Kingdom of Mithra.
• Capeline used her wings to rush Shien at extreme speed, struck him with the Replica Sacred Sword, and deflected his counterattack.
• Shien activated Limit Break: Evolve and evaded Capeline's devastating attacks with Instantaneous Movement.
• Aiyi recognized Capeline's strength as comparable to the Hero she had fought, while Capeline challenged Shien to use his own Unique Skill.
• Shien hesitated over whether to bring out the Holy Sword, knowing he had not yet used his full strength.

Shien used his full normal-state strength to overwhelm Capeline with advanced Enchantment and Celestial Magic. He trapped her in a barrage of starlight while Cosmos shook from the battle.

• Shien refused to unseal the Holy Sword and activated his accumulated skills and powers against Capeline.
• Shien used Instantaneous Movement and advanced Enchantment Magic to burden Capeline with seven negative statuses.
• Shien cast the Celestial Magic spell Starry Arrays and sent miniature celestial bodies after Capeline.
• Capeline resisted the enchantments and flew into the celestial formation, but the bodies surrounded her and fired bands of light.
• Capeline shielded herself with her White Wings as the blasts shook Cosmos, while Shien hovered nearby with the Holy Sword and the celestial bodies.

Shien defeated Capeline in Cosmos and warned her knights not to insult Roxie again, using his skills to frighten them into silence. After Shien’s group left, Yuri and the other knights arrived at the ruined battlefield and feared that Cosmos was about to grow more chaotic.

• Shien defeated Capeline with his Starry Arrays, and she collapsed from exhaustion.
• Shien released the Shattered Blade Knights, told them Capeline could challenge him again but must stop speaking badly of Roxie, and threatened to strip her if she did.
• When the female knights insulted him, Shien shattered two knights’ armor and warned the others about his skills before departing with Aiyi, Lasha, and Emerald.
• Capeline’s knights protected their unconscious Princess and returned with her as Cosmos’s shifting buildings came to a stop.
• Yuri, Sona, Limjo, and the other knights arrived at the ruined battlefield, and Yuri concluded that the fighters had been stronger than him.

Shien and his companions settled into an inn in eerie, sealed-off Cosmos, where Shien’s attempt to visit a mixed bathhouse ended in disappointment. He contacted Roxie from the royal capital, reported what he had learned in Cosmos, and left her visibly displeased when he mentioned Capellin Ragna.

• Shien and his companions checked into a luxurious suite at one of Cosmos’s few operating inns.
• Shien sneaked into the public mixed bathhouse but fled after finding only elderly bathers.
• Shien used Roxie’s Magic Item to contact her and heard her complain that he had kept her waiting.
• Shien told Roxie he had reached Cosmos quickly with Yulin and had not yet encountered anyone from the Old Demon Faction.
• Roxie asked about Cosmos’s situation, and Shien described his experiences, including Capeline’s presence.
• Roxie’s mood worsened when Shien mentioned Capellin Ragna.

Shien spoke with Roxie about Capeline Ragna, and Roxie warned him to avoid the imperial Princess because of her obsession with Roxie and the political tensions between their countries. Their conversation turned to marriage, and Roxie admitted she looked forward to a future in which she could live freely with Shien.

• Shien asked Roxie what she thought of Capeline, and Roxie warned him not to pursue the imperial Princess.
• Roxie explained that Capeline’s obsession with her and the Kingdom’s strained relations with the Empire would make any marriage politically troublesome.
• Roxie cautioned Shien that Capeline was exceptionally strong and might seek trouble with him, unaware that he had already defeated her.
• Shien listened to Roxie’s concerns and told her that marrying her did not sound bad to him because she could leave behind her burdens and stop hiding herself.
• Roxie admitted she had imagined that future too, and Shien teased that he would marry her after having his fun.

Shien noticed Emerald’s recurring distress in Cosmos and tried to learn what troubled her. After revealing that he was a Hero from Another World, he earned her trust, and she led him outside.

• Shien ended his magical conversation with Roxie and found Emerald staring listlessly from the balcony.
• Lasha told Shien that Emerald had shown this troubled expression since they arrived in Cosmos, but she did not know why.
• Shien asked Emerald who she was and offered to help with whatever was troubling her.
• Shien told Emerald he was a Hero summoned from Another World and revealed his Holy Sword, which surprised her.
• Emerald tugged Shien’s sleeve and pointed outside, and Shien agreed to go with her.

Shien followed Emerald through Cosmos to a dark temple at the source of the city's strange mana disturbances. He found it guarded by powerful Beastfolk priests and wondered whether they were protecting the Beastmen Race's Saintess or the Goddess of Life's temple.

• Emerald led Shien through Cosmos's shifting alleys to a forested area near the city's center.
• Emerald guided Shien to a vast, black temple covered in thorns and vines.
• Shien sensed that mana pouring from the temple was causing the city's buildings and people to be transferred elsewhere.
• Shien spotted powerful Beastfolk priests guarding the temple and considered whether they were the Saintess's Priestly Corps.
• Shien wondered whether the temple belonged to the Goddess of Life.

Shien fought his way into the temple with Emerald, whose presence allowed them to pass through its doors and mana barrier. Meanwhile, Ji Bai prepared to begin work at the Royal Academy as concerns about danger in the capital lingered; Shien and Emerald reached a vast hall, where he saw something astonishing.

• The temple's mana revealed Shien's presence to the beastman priests, and he knocked one unconscious before carrying Emerald away.
• Shien attacked the priests guarding the temple entrance with Flying Star and found the temple's repelling mana was nearing the limit of his Magic Resistance.
• Emerald approached the temple without being repelled, opened its doors, and led Shien inside while he held off pursuing priests.
• Emerald guided the mana around Shien as she led him deeper into the temple, and they entered a vast hall where Shien gasped at what he saw.
• Ji Bai failed to guide a water element across a spatial barrier, then discussed preparations for the Royal Academy's opening with Elena.
• Ji Bai told Elena to watch for suspicious activity while he attended the academy, and he reflected on the brewing danger in the capital.

Shien helped Emerald by cutting the crystal seal around a girl who looked exactly like her, unleashing a powerful surge of magic and drawing the Beastman Priests into battle. The Foxkin Girl tried to contain the cracking crystal while a level-ninety-one Wolfman Strongman and a level-eighty-nine Catkin Girl confronted Shien.

• Emerald led Shien to a crystal mountain containing a wounded girl who looked exactly like her and asked him to break the seal with the Holy Sword.
• Shien agreed and slashed the crystal mountain just as a group of high-ranking Beastman Priests arrived, despite the Foxkin Girl's warning.
• The crystal split and released a powerful surge of magic, and the Wolfman Strongman attacked Shien with a devastating punch.
• Shien bound the Wolfman Strongman with magic, but the wolfman broke free through brute force and struck the temple floor after Shien escaped with Instantaneous Movement.
• The Beastman Priests surrounded Emerald while the Foxkin Girl used holy light to stabilize the crystal, and a Catkin Girl blocked Shien from reaching them.

Shien fought the Beastfolk guards Oz and Mafy after they confronted him over breaking the temple seal, using enchantments to weaken and slow them before overpowering them. He stopped the other priests and protected Emerald, while the foxkin Saintess collapsed after resealing the crystal.

• Mafy questioned Shien about breaking into the temple and undoing its seal, while Oz demanded that the Beastfolk attack him.
• Shien fought Oz and Mafy above the temple, using Enchantment Magic to weaken Oz and slow Mafy.
• Shien defeated both guards with Flying Star magic and immobilized the Beastman Priests with his aura.
• Emerald escaped the priests and joined Shien as the crystal resealed and its magic power faded.
• The foxkin Saintess stopped praying, collapsed unconscious, and was identified by the priests as their Saintess.

Shien restrained the Beastman Priests and agreed to postpone breaking the temple seal, but he abducted the unconscious Foxkin Saintess to learn more and keep the priests from retaliating. He escaped with Emerald and the Saintess, leaving the priests in despair.

• Shien immobilized the Beastman Priests while Emerald examined the cracked seal, and Mafy warned that releasing its prisoner could plunge the Human Realm into hell.
• Shien decided to leave the seal alone for now, believing the Saintess had only temporarily restored it and that there was time to investigate.
• Shien scooped up the unconscious Foxkin Saintess, kicked away Oz and Mafy when they tried to stop him, and said he wanted to take her as a guest and hostage.
• Emerald pointed out that Shien's hand was pressing against the Saintess, and he apologized, claiming his hand had slipped.
• Shien escaped through the shattered ceiling with Emerald and the Saintess, rejecting Mafy's promise not to pursue him and leaving the Beastman Priests distraught.

Shien brought the unconscious Foxkin Saintess back to the inn and used Celestial Breathe to repair her severe internal injuries, then imprisoned her magic power while she recovered. The next morning, she woke to find herself unharmed and her accumulated injuries gone, and wondered what had happened.

• Shien returned to the inn with Emerald and the unconscious Foxkin Saintess, and Lasha bathed and examined the Saintess.
• Lasha reported that the Saintess had exhausted her magic power and suffered severe internal injuries from the strain of using the Goddess of Life's power.
• Shien cast Celestial Breathe to heal the Saintess's injuries, imprisoned her magic power, and had Lasha take her downstairs to rest.
• The Foxkin Saintess woke the next day, feared she had been captured and defiled, then found that her body was unharmed and her long-standing internal injuries had vanished.
• The Foxkin Saintess wondered how her injuries could have been healed, since only the legendary Miracle Light Veil was believed capable of curing them.

The Foxkin Saintess woke to find herself among Shien, Lasha, and Emerald, then panicked when Shien jokingly threatened to make fox meat out of her. After Lasha stopped Shien and comforted her, the Saintess began to see Lasha as her savior.

• The Foxkin Saintess peeked out of her room and watched Shien, Lasha, and Emerald eating breakfast together.
• The Foxkin Saintess decided to sneak away and reunite with Oz and Mafy so she could return for Half-body.
• Shien joked that he wanted to eat fox meat, and the Foxkin Saintess rushed from the room in terror.
• The Foxkin Saintess ran into Shien, who teased her until she tearfully begged him not to eat her.
• Lasha shoved meat into Shien's mouth to stop him, then helped the Foxkin Saintess up and reassured her.
• The Foxkin Saintess asked Lasha if she could call her Big Sister, leaving Shien dumbfounded.

Shien questioned Iris about the Beastmen's guarded temple in Cosmos, and Iris reluctantly agreed to explain what they were doing there. She left off protesting Shien's threats as she prepared to tell him the truth.

• Lasha reassured Iris that she had changed her clothes and served her breakfast, which Iris ate gratefully.
• Shien learned that the Foxkin Saintess was named Iris and teased her by calling her Little Fox.
• Shien asked Iris why the Beastmen were guarding the ominous temple and what lay behind its seal.
• Iris explained that the temple's leaking magic had repelled investigators, and admitted the Beastmen had expected their secret to be discovered eventually.
• When Iris hesitated to reveal their purpose, Shien threatened to have Lasha prepare another dish, and Iris hurriedly offered to tell him everything.

Iris explained that the temple in Cosmos had once sealed Lilith, a powerful evil god who governs evil and chaos. The chapter left Shien realizing that the Dark Temple had fallen into the Human Realm after the world split during the war a thousand years ago.

• Iris told Shien that gods could be evil and described the God of Misfortune and other feared deities.
• Iris identified the god sealed in the temple as Lilith, the demon god of evil and chaos, and Shien connected her to the wounded girl sealed in crystal.
• Iris explained that Lilith was born alongside Artemis and could rival the Goddess of Justice and the Three Great Goddesses in power.
• Iris revealed that Lilith had lost her rationality at birth and brought disasters, so the Three Great Goddesses sealed her temple beyond the worlds.
• Iris said the world’s division during the war a thousand years ago opened the gaps between worlds, allowing Lilith’s Dark Temple to fall into Cosmos.

Iris explained Cosmos’s hidden history and revealed that a human destroyed the spatial node sealing the Dark Temple, unleashing the events that displaced the Beastmen tribe and caused the transfer phenomena. She confirmed that Emerald had been sealed inside the temple as Lilith the Evil God’s separated rational half.

• Iris told Shien that Cosmos had been built on the Beastmen tribe’s homeland, where the Goddess of Life had hidden the Dark Temple in a pocket space.
• Iris explained that the temple’s reappearance drove away the Beastmen tribe and caused buildings and living beings across Cosmos and nearby territories to be transferred.
• Iris said the Old Demon Faction attacked the tribe but was repelled, and that a human had deliberately destroyed the spatial node.
• Iris revealed that the human mastermind used Magic Life to obstruct the priests’ investigation, including Magic Life that killed themselves.
• Shien asked whether Emerald was connected to Lilith, and Iris confirmed Emerald was Lilith’s rational half-body, sealed with her in the Dark Temple.

Shien learned that Emerald was Lilith the Evil God's rational Half-body and that she had hoped he would break Lilith's seal, prompting Iris to beg him not to release the dangerous evil god. Shien refused to return Iris to the temple and kept her as a hostage while Emerald disappeared and he pondered the chaos outside.

• Shien recalled the legend of the blonde, violet-eyed girl and realized Emerald was the resentful spirit people had encountered for centuries.
• Iris explained that Emerald was Lilith the Evil God's rational Half-body, who traveled the world to strengthen her rationality and had hoped Shien would break Lilith's seal so she could reunite with her.
• Shien realized Emerald's plan could destroy her, glared at her, and understood why she had accepted delaying the attempt to break the seal.
• Iris warned Shien that Lilith's return could devastate the world and pleaded with him not to break her seal again.
• Shien refused to let Iris return to the temple and declared he would keep her as a hostage against the Beastman Priest Corps.
• Iris ran to Lasha for comfort or protection, Emerald vanished, and Shien went to the balcony to contemplate the chaos in Cosmos.