Recaps

Shien met with Capeline and learned that she had accepted Harvis's deal despite her reservations, because her faction faced a dangerous political and military disadvantage. Capeline had also lost the Replica Sacred Sword, leaving Shien baffled that a Holy Sword could be lost.

• Shien arrived with Tier and Lilith, and Capeline and the female knights reacted awkwardly to him after their recent encounter.
• Rocket confirmed that he supported Harvis and Capeline against the Imperial Consort, while Capeline acknowledged Lilith's identity.
• Capeline told Shien that Harvis had persuaded her to accept the deal, despite her concerns about its terms.
• Capeline explained that her faction faced fewer supporting nobles and knights, an uncertain Emperor, and possible hidden aid from the Old Demon Faction to the Imperial Consort.
• Capeline revealed that the Poisonous Consort had taken her Replica Sacred Sword, threatening her strength and standing with the people.
• Shien wondered how Capeline could have lost a Holy Sword, believing it should have returned on its own.

Capeline told Shien that Moro’s actions against her would lead the Empire’s factions into open conflict, and explained how her blessing from Artemis could make her testimony credible. The decisive battle would begin when Moro returned and Capeline publicly accused her.

• Capeline explained that losing the Replica Sacred Sword had weakened her and that she had agreed to cooperate with Shien against Moro.
• Capeline said her return had alarmed nobles who knew Moro had captured and abused her, making war between their factions likely.
• Capeline revealed that she was the Blessing Bearer of Artemis and could invoke a fair judgment that prevented her from lying.
• Tier confirmed that Capeline’s testimony in that state could not be falsified, while Capeline clarified that she needed evidence or firsthand experience to judge Moro.
• Capeline said Moro would return soon, and she would accuse her publicly, beginning the decisive battle.

Moro returned to the Imperial Palace and ordered her faction to prepare for a direct confrontation with Capeline in the Royal Hall the next day. She also secretly tasked a young nobleman with using an imitation weapon against Capellin Ragna and Tier Elbain.

• Moro arrived in the Emperor's bedchamber, where nobles welcomed her as the Imperial Consort while the Emperor babbled madly.
• Salilo reported the failed schemes, House Laifirut's fall, Capeline's return with the Shattered Blade Knights, and the mysterious expert's attack on Moro's facility.
• Moro dismissed Capeline as the main threat and said she had encountered a true god-given miracle.
• Moro ordered Salilo and the nobles to gather their forces at the Imperial Palace and prepare for Capeline and her allies to come to the Royal Hall the next day.
• Moro told a young nobleman hiding in the shadows to wait for an opportunity and use an imitation weapon to surprise Capellin Ragna and Tier Elbain.

Capeline, Rocket, and Shien prepared to confront Moro as the Imperial Capital filled with troops and the threat of civil war. Shien’s force set out for the Imperial Palace, while Lasha stayed behind to watch over the still-unconscious Laini.

• Capeline and Rocket learned that knights had assembled throughout the Imperial Palace, and Rocket concluded that Moro was preparing for war.
• Capeline resolved to expose Moro, and Rocket agreed to remain by her side as they prepared to depart.
• Shien told Lasha to stay behind and watch Laini, then left with Tier and the drowsy Lilith.
• Laisha appeared after Shien left and reproached Lasha for letting him kiss her, while Lasha silently reflected on their unavoidable connection.
• Shien joined Capeline, Rocket, Tilly, and the knights outside House Bigusle, and their force set out for the Imperial Palace with Shien’s group in a carriage.

Capeline and Salilo faced off with their forces outside the Imperial Palace, each accusing the other of treason. The standoff shifted when the mysterious powerhouse who destroyed House Laifirut arrived in a House Bigusle carriage and challenged Salilo to recognize him.

• Salilo led the Empire Knights in blocking Capeline and her allies from entering the Imperial Palace, while Geno followed nervously at his side.
• Capeline accused Salilo of treason for obstructing her attempt to expose the Imperial Consort, and Salilo insisted she could enter alone while the others stayed behind.
• Salilo warned Capeline that Prince Harvis and her mother were inside the palace, but she remained defiant.
• A House Bigusle carriage rolled through the mounted knights, and its driver asked Salilo if he could recognize him without his cloak.
• Salilo realized the carriage's driver was the mysterious powerhouse who had destroyed House Laifirut.

Shien forced Salilo to let Capeline and him enter the Imperial Palace, then teleported tens of thousands of soldiers past its barrier. As the armies prepared to clash and Capeline’s group rushed toward the Royal Hall, Shien sensed a strange magic power inside the palace and went to investigate.

• Shien restrained Salilo and refused to leave the rest of the group outside, then teleported tens of thousands of soldiers into the Imperial Palace as the knights attacked.
• Salilo ordered the Imperial knights to defend the Royal Hall, kicked Geno aside, and decided to replace him as heir after the battle.
• Rocket and Tilly blocked Salilo’s path into the palace with their forces.
• Capeline and the Shattered Blade Knights charged toward the Royal Hall, while Shien sent Lilith into the sky and kept Yulin on standby.
• Shien sensed a concealed, strange magic power inside the Imperial Palace and vanished to find its source.

Capeline and the Shattered Blade Knights fought through the Imperial Palace toward the Royal Hall, while Shien effortlessly disabled a group of powerful experts. The group reached the Royal Hall and charged inside.

• Capeline led the Shattered Blade Knights through the Imperial Palace, cutting down the forces trying to stop them.
• The Shattered Blade Knights fought in formation, and Tier helped clear their path through the encirclement.
• High-level experts blocked the group, but Shien used Enchantment: Imprisonment and Enchantment: Slumber to seal their magic and put them to sleep.
• Capeline recognized Shien's growing strength and resolved to train and challenge him again after the crisis ended.
• Shien teleported toward the Royal Hall, and Capeline and the others arrived and charged inside.

Shien, Capeline, and Tier confronted Moro in the Imperial Palace's Audience Hall, where the Poisonous Consort revealed her hatred of Heroes and recognized Shien's true identity. Moro's death aura erupted as her level rose to 100, revealing that she was a Limit-tier powerhouse.

• Capeline led Shien, Tier, and the Shattered Blade Knights into the Royal Hall and confronted Moro, whom she blamed for her family's suffering and her imprisonment.
• Moro mocked Capeline and welcomed Shien, saying she had watched him and had seen the Holy Sword's light during the Cosmos incident.
• Shien warned Capeline not to approach Moro, while Moro declared her loathing of Heroes and wished to kill them all.
• Moro's death aura surged, her level became visible and rose to 100, and the skills Necromancy and Death Great Spirit Body appeared.

Moro revealed that she was the High Priest’s first Great Spirit Body, had seized control of her creator, and hated the Hero for destroying Ereii. She explained that the Hero’s destruction of Ereii’s Magic Power Source unleashed a disaster that killed its people, and he left without saving them.

• Moro’s deathly energy swept through the Royal Hall, and Shien used Disperse to protect Tier, Capeline, and the Shattered Blade Knights, though nearby soldiers and knights died when the energy touched them.
• Moro unleashed a stronger form of deathly energy and explained that she had gathered it by draining the Empire’s buried dead.
• Moro told Shien that she was the first Great Spirit Body, had escaped the High Priest’s control, and had forced the High Priest to serve her for the past ten years.
• Shien asked Moro why she hated the Hero, and Moro asked whether he knew of Ereii, a country destroyed a thousand years earlier.
• Tier explained that Ereii had been a small country destroyed before the final war between the gods, humans, and demons.
• Moro said the Hero had severed Ereii’s Magic Power Source to stop a demonic ritual, causing it to go berserk; he then left to fight the demons without saving the people, including Moro.

Moro revealed that an Imperial prince helped the demons destroy Ereii, explaining her hatred of the Empire and Heroes as she unleashed her strongest necromantic magic against Shien and the others. Shien confronted Moro and prepared to settle the score with her.

• Shien challenged Moro's hatred of the Empire, and Moro revealed that an Imperial prince had invited the demons into Ereii, leading Capeline to confirm the imperial family's hidden connection to its destruction.
• Moro declared that she would destroy the Heroes, the Kingdom of Mithra, and the Ragna Empire, then unleashed Grand Astarte against Shien.
• Shien tried to disperse Moro's deathly storm, but it split into vengeful spirits that rotted the Royal Hall, threatened the Shattered Blade Knights, and raised corpses as undead.
• Capeline and Tier fought the spirits with Magic Swords while discovering that the spirits could corrode magic and drain life.
• Moro intercepted a surprise attack from Shien, who said he sympathized with her suffering but would not let her harm him or his companions, then challenged her to settle the score.

Shien and Moro fought in the Royal Hall while Capeline, Tier, and the Shattered Blade Knights battled the wraiths. Warren Laifirut appeared and confronted Tier, revealing he intended to make her his final duplicate with Devour Hand Self-Division, and he wielded Capeline’s stolen Replica Sacred Sword.

• Capeline led the Shattered Blade Knights in retreating to the entrance, where they and Tier fought off Moro’s undead and wraiths while Capeline’s blessing purified the spirits she struck.
• Tier spotted a figure sneaking toward her and dodged its sword attack before recognizing the attacker as Warren Laifirut.
• Warren told Tier that he had survived Shien’s attack by switching places with a duplicate called a tentacle.
• Tier explained Warren’s Devour Hand Self-Division, and Warren described its limits and how many of his duplicates he had lost.
• Warren declared that he would kill Tier and preserve her as his final tentacle, then raised Capeline’s stolen Replica Sacred Sword.

Warren revealed that he could wield the Replica Sacred Sword by switching his main body with a split body carrying House Laifirut’s Hero bloodline, then attacked Tier. Capeline was forced to fight her mind-controlled brother Harvis while Shien and Moro continued their battle in the Royal Hall.

• Warren explained that he had made one of his split bodies, descended from House Laifirut, his main body, giving him the bloodline needed to wield the Replica Sacred Sword.
• Warren charged at Tier, who resolved to defeat the last bloodline of House Laifirut and met him in battle.
• Harvis appeared before Capeline wielding Thunderstorm, and she realized Moro had turned him into a half-human, half-corpse puppet.
• Harvis’s lightning attacks overwhelmed Capeline and cracked her Knight Sword, leaving her at a severe disadvantage.
• Shien dispersed Moro’s vengeful spirits with Enchantment Magic and attacked her with the Holy Sword, but Moro’s deathly aura stopped his blade.

Shien fought Moro in the Imperial Palace and revealed a powerful ability called Cycle of Fate without unsealing the Holy Sword. As Moro summoned seven Demonoid Larvae into the Royal Hall, Tier, Capeline, and the Shattered Blade Knights remained in danger.

• Shien evaded Moro's black waves and recognized her as the strongest opponent below the Transcendent Class he had encountered.
• Moro revealed that she had no Unique Skill and hinted that a hidden source of trouble was about to arrive.
• Shien saw Tier, Capeline, and the Shattered Blade Knights being overwhelmed, so he awakened Cycle of Fate and more than doubled his power.
• Moro realized Shien had reached beyond ordinary Limit-tier strength without unsealing the Holy Sword.
• Moro summoned the Demonoid Larva Legion, and seven grotesque Demonoid Larvae burst into the Royal Hall.

Shien battled Moro and her eleven undead Legendary-tier Demonoid Larvae in the Royal Hall, injuring Moro with the Holy Sword before the hall collapsed. As Shien sensed a growing threat and moved to confront Moro, Yulin arrived to hold off the Larvae.

• Moro animated and empowered eleven Demonoid Larvae, but Shien reflected their Dragon Breath and charged at her.
• Shien used Annihilation and Teleportation to evade Moro's deathly energy, then severed her head and hand with the Holy Sword.
• Moro regenerated her wounds and destroyed the Royal Hall, while Shien shielded Tier, Capeline, and the female knights from much of the impact.
• Shien escaped the Demonoid Larvae's encirclement and rushed toward Moro as she rose into the sky.
• Yulin descended in dragon form and stopped the Demonoid Larvae with a blast of Dragon Breath.

Moro revealed that she had spent years preparing a sacrificial ritual to manifest the Branch of Flourishing, and forced Warren to help create a duplicate of Tier Elbain. As Yulin and the Legendary-tier Demonoid Larvae arrived, Shien was kept busy defending the Imperial Palace while Moro began sacrificing Warren to complete her plan.

• Yulin descended on the Imperial Palace with eleven Legendary-tier Demonoid Larvae, shocking Rocket, Salilo, Tilly, and Geno.
• Moro attacked the entire Imperial Palace with death energy, forcing Shien to counter it with Enchantment: Annihilation instead of teleporting to her.
• Moro ordered Warren to use Tier Elbain's horn and his Devour Hand Self-Division to create a duplicate, proposing to fake the condition that Warren had killed Tier.
• When Warren tried to resist, Moro disarmed him and explained that she had prepared a sacrificial ritual across the Empire to awaken the Branch of Flourishing.
• Moro revealed that she needed a Goddess of Fate's Blessing Bearer as a sacrifice, and began pouring lethal death energy into Warren after deciding Tier could no longer serve.

Moro used Warren’s Unique Skill to create a duplicate of Tier and prepared to exploit her Goddess of Fate blessing, but Lilith’s arrival forced Moro to activate a vast sacrificial magic array across the Empire. After sacrificing Emerald’s Magic Life to steal Lilith’s authority, Moro enveloped Lilith in sinister energy, leaving Shien shocked.

• Tier sensed that something connected to her had appeared and disappeared near Moro, while Capeline ran to Harvis and the Imperial forces fled the palace.
• Shien called Lilith after using Cycle of Fate and struggling to hold back Moro’s death aura.
• Moro revealed that she had used Warren to create a duplicate of Tier, whose blessing she planned to exploit before it vanished.
• Lilith descended and drove Moro into a frenzy, but Moro activated the Great Undead Sacrifice Activation Magic Array spanning the Empire.
• Moro sacrificed Emerald’s Magic Life to extract Lilith’s authority, and Lilith disappeared inside a curtain of wild sinister energy as Shien reacted in alarm.

When Moro swallowed Lilith in her evil aura, Shien unleashed Cycle of Fate at its limit and fully released the Holy Sword, striking Moro with a devastating blow. Moro sacrificed a girl-shaped fragment and awakened the Branch of Flourishing, gaining Divine Realm-level power as the world darkened and turned crimson.

• Shien saw Lilith swallowed by Moro’s evil aura and pushed Cycle of Fate to its limit, then released the Holy Sword completely.
• Shien’s Holy Sword wounded Moro and nearly destroyed her Death Great Spirit Body with its Sacred Power.
• Shien demanded to know what Moro had done to Lilith and attacked her again.
• Moro sacrificed the girl-shaped fragment, transforming the sky into darkness and the earth into a crimson prison.
• The Branch of Flourishing appeared and merged into Moro, unleashing power that alarmed the Goddesses and Demon beings.

Moro unleashed the power of the Branch of Flourishing and tried to destroy Shien and the Empire with a black sun. Shien split the attack and killed Moro, then fell until the tiny Goddess caught him.

• Moro transformed into an apex being, but knew the power of the Branch of Flourishing was eroding her borrowed Great Spirit Body and nearing the end of her life.
• Moro unleashed her remaining strength in a black sun meant to erase Shien and the Empire, leaving Tier, Capeline, Rocket, Salilo, Tilly, Geno, and the others helpless.
• Shien charged into the black sun with the Holy Sword and split its power, while the clash devastated parts of the Imperial Capital.
• Shien reached Moro and killed her with a fatal slash, then fell from the sky after coughing up blood.
• The tiny Goddess emerged from the surviving barrier, caught Shien, and descended with him toward the Imperial Capital.

After the Sun of Death was destroyed, Lainy awoke and met Danas, who revealed how he had uncovered her identity as the true owner of the Death Great Spirit Body. Danas explained that Moro had been Lainy’s royal shadow warrior and agent, while Lainy’s plan to overcome the Great Spirit Body’s flaws depended on obtaining the Branch of Flourishing.

• Laisha raised a magical barrier that shielded House Bigusle from the shockwave caused by the Sun of Death’s collision with the Hero.
• Lainy awoke from her long unconsciousness just as the culprit behind the Sun of Death was slain, and Danas introduced himself as the Star Apostle of the Old Demon Faction.
• Danas explained that Moro had told Lainy about her cooperation with him, then said he had deduced that Lainy—not Moro—was the true owner of the Death Great Spirit Body.
• Danas connected Lainy to the lost Princess of Ereii, whose unreturned love for Mitra had become the ultimate hatred needed to form the Great Spirit Body.
• Danas identified Moro as Lainy’s former maid and royal shadow warrior, who had shared Lainy’s traits through Symbiosis and hated the Hero because of Lainy’s suffering.
• Danas said Lainy had sought the Branch of Flourishing to overcome the Death Great Spirit Body’s flaws, but the world’s laws would not allow a life created outside life to grow.

Danas revealed that Lainy planned to use the Branch of Flourishing to escape the limits of her Death Great Spirit Body, while Moro had died trying to secure it for her. Lainy agreed to support Danas’s pursuit of transcendence and went with him, leaving Lasha and Laisha to find her bed empty.

• Danas explained that Lainy’s ten-year plan used the Goddess of Fate’s Blessing Bearer and a ritual to make the Branch of Flourishing appear.
• Danas admitted that he sought transcendence and asked Lainy to honor the alliance he had made with Moro.
• Lainy explained that Moro had risked her life to obtain the Branch of Flourishing and transfer it to her through Symbiosis, but Shien killed Moro before she could do so.
• Lainy agreed to support Danas, who addressed her as Lady Lainy Mitra, the first Queen Consort of the Kingdom of Mithra and the Hero’s wife.
• Lasha and Laisha returned to the room and found that Lainy had vanished from the bed.

After Shien Poztut was revealed as a true Hero, leaders across the Human Realm considered how to respond to the upheaval his identity might bring. The Kingdom of Mithra and the Elves chose to support him and began preparing for possible conflict with the Demon Race.

• Anxi, Ria, Aridia, and Shana discussed the intelligence confirming that Shien Poztut was a Hero from Another World.
• Roxie confronted her family and mentor, declared that she would stand by Shien, and warned the Kingdom not to force her into opposition.
• Ria affirmed that she also wanted to support Shien, and Anxi ordered Aridia to monitor the Demon Race, especially its embassy.
• Sophie, Leia, Nia, and the Elf Division reacted to Shien's revealed identity, and Sophie ordered the Elves to prepare for battle and watch the Demon Race.
• News of Shien's identity spread across the Human Realm, where tension mounted.

The Three Great Goddesses discussed Shien’s revealed identity as a Hero and worried that it could threaten the thousand-year peace between the gods and demons. When a letter from the demons arrived, Lidas read it and the goddesses were stunned by the Moon Demon’s decision.

• Lidas confronted Anima and Nadula for hiding that Shien was a Hero, and they confirmed his identity and exceptional potential.
• Anima and Nadula rejected Lidas’s proposal to bring Shien to the Divine Realm, warning that detaining him could provoke the demons.
• The goddesses considered whether the demons had summoned Shien, but Anima and Nadula doubted they could reproduce the Mother Goddess’s ritual.
• Anima and Nadula decided that Nadula should contact Moon Demon Sela discreetly to learn the demons’ stance on Shien.
• A Goddess delivered a letter from the demons, and Lidas read it before Anima and Nadula reacted with astonishment to the Moon Demon’s decision.

Shien woke after defeating Moro and learned that his identity as the Hero had been exposed. As the Imperial Capital struggled with the aftermath of the battle and Laini remained missing, Shien prepared to face the turmoil ahead.

• Lasha told Shien that Lilith had carried him back after he defeated Moro, and that he had slept for three days while recovering.
• Shien discovered that his level had risen from 79 to 95 and that his mana and strength had greatly increased.
• Lasha reported that the Imperial Capital was badly damaged, Moro's eleven Demonoid Larvae had disappeared, and Rocket and Capeline's forces were managing the aftermath.
• Lasha told Shien that Laini had disappeared after she and Lasha went out to protect House Bigusle.
• Lasha confirmed that everyone now knew Shien was the Hero, and Shien anticipated that the Human Realm would become troublesome.

After waking, Shien comforted Lilith and checked on Tier, then learned that Tier's missing horn might have been used by Moro and that she had gained something else she was still investigating. With his identity exposed and the Demon Realm's movements concerning, Shien headed to the Imperial Palace to check on Harvis and Capeline.

• Lilith rushed into Shien's arms, and he reassured her that she was not to blame for what happened.
• Shien spoke with Laisha and Tier, confirmed Tier's injuries were minor, and learned Warren Laifirut had used clones.
• Tier said her original horn was probably gone, but she might have gained something and would tell Shien once she confirmed it.
• Laisha reminded Shien that his identity had been exposed, while Lasha warned him about the Demon Realm's recent movements.
• Shien decided to visit the Imperial Palace to check on Harvis and Capeline, then left House Bigusle after Lilith reluctantly let Lasha take her.

Shien discovered that concealed detection magic was sweeping the Imperial Capital, likely as demons searched for him, and decided he would need to speak with Sera and Lidas after handling the Empire’s aftermath. Capeline, overwhelmed by the Empire’s crises, brought him to see Harvis, whose condition remained extremely dire despite three days of treatment.

• Shien noticed that concealed experts were using detection magic throughout the damaged Imperial Capital and suspected demons were searching for him.
• Shien kept himself concealed, concluded that the Hero’s return had made him a target, and decided he might need to speak with Sera and Lidas.
• Capeline struggled to manage reconstruction, missing Demonoid Larvae, monster attacks, and other crises across the Empire while worrying about Harvis and the Empire’s future.
• Shien appeared before Capeline, who asked him to see Harvis, and she led him to the temple where he was being treated.
• Shien saw that Harvis remained unconscious and pale after three days of treatment and understood that his condition was extremely dire.