Recaps

Shien forced Shudi to reveal that he knew about the Old Demon Faction’s plans for the Three Races conference by threatening him with enchanted criminals. After Shudi submitted, Shien subdued every prisoner in the royal palace’s underground prison.

• Shien threatened to release the prisoners and use Enchantment Magic on them unless Shudi cooperated.
• Shudi’s reaction convinced Shien and Roxie that he knew about the Old Demon Faction’s plans for the Three Races conference.
• Shien dispelled the prison’s barriers, broke open the cells, and cast Enchantment: Lust on the prisoners while excluding Shudi.
• The enraged prisoners pinned Shudi down, and he agreed to talk.
• Shien dispelled the enchantment and overwhelmed the furious prisoners with his magic power, forcing them all to kneel in submission.

Shien interrogated Shudi and learned that the Hundred Beast's Lair was leading the Old Demon Faction's plot against the Three Races summit, while the Primal Demon remained the greater threat. Roxie planned to consult Goddess Lidas, and Shien asked whether he could take the prisoners away.

• Shien frightened Shudi into revealing the Hundred Beast's Lair's intelligence and details of the Old Demon Faction's operation against the Three Races summit.
• Shien and Roxie learned that the Hundred Beast's Lair was at the center of the planned attack, and Roxie decided to report the information to her father.
• Shien warned Roxie that the Primal Demon posed a greater danger because of its powerful forces and its apparent plan to create a Seventh Demonoid.
• Roxie said she would discuss the threat with Goddess Lidas, while Shien turned to the prisoners and asked Roxie if he could take them away.

Shien brought 98 powerful criminals to House Poztut as its new fighting force, explaining that the kingdom had approved their release and that he had made them obedient with spells. Ryley and the others remained uneasy, but the criminals swore they would serve House Poztut and become good people.

• Shien returned to House Poztut with Shudi and a group of notorious criminals, who bowed and declared themselves his lackeys.
• Ryley, Vivian, Tier, and Lumya reacted with alarm as Ryley demanded to know why Shien had brought the criminals there.
• Shien explained that House Poztut needed stronger fighters ahead of the Three Races conference and counted seven Legendary-tier experts among the 98 recruits.
• Shien told Ryley that Roxie had helped secure the kingdom's approval and that he had guaranteed the criminals would behave.
• When Ryley questioned whether the criminals might betray House Poztut, Shien prompted them to swear loyalty, and they revealed their fear of the spells he had placed inside them.

Shien concealed the ninety-eight powerful criminals who joined House Poztut after Capeline warned him that Goddess of Justice Artemis might target the household. Shafna confirmed Artemis’s hostility toward evil and the Demons, leaving Shien worried about her arrival at the upcoming Three Races summit.

• Ninety-eight fighters, including seven Legendary-tier experts, joined House Poztut, and Shien arranged for them to take new names and conceal their identities.
• Capeline warned Shien that Artemis might punish the criminals, and Shien realized his household contained many beings and people the Goddess could consider evil.
• Shafna confirmed that Artemis’s uncompromising sense of justice was a flaw tied to her nature and said she especially hated Kamina, Milu, and Aiyi.
• Shien worried that Artemis would discover House Poztut’s members when she appeared at the Three Races summit.

Sela received Artemis, the Goddess of Justice, at the Demon Realm’s World-Crossing Gate after clearing the hall of its usual guards. Artemis had come to retrieve three troublemakers, and her arrival surprised Sela because Artemis had avoided the Demon Realm for a thousand years.

• Sela dismissed the guards and her executive from Supreme Castle’s World-Crossing Gate before Artemis arrived.
• Artemis crossed into the Demon Realm wearing silver armor and twin swords, then surveyed her surroundings sternly.
• Sela greeted Artemis, and Artemis addressed her as the Demon Sovereign and thanked her for receiving her.
• Sela said she had expected Nadula to come retrieve the three troublemakers, but Artemis explained that the Three Great Goddesses were occupied with preparations for the Three Races conference.
• Sela remarked that Artemis’s visit surprised her because Artemis regarded the Demon Realm as a lawless place and had avoided it for a thousand years.

Artemis visited the Demon Realm to judge why Hero Shien had become so close to the Demon Race and to warn Sela against drawing him into evil. Sela refused to explain her plans and declared that Shien belonged to the Demon Race, leaving Artemis unable to challenge her without risking war.

• Artemis told Sela that she had come to see why the Hero acknowledged this world and its people.
• Artemis contrasted Shien’s close ties to the Demon Lords with Mitra’s efforts to make peace without becoming close to the Demon Race.
• Artemis admitted she could not take Shien from the Demon Race without risking a renewed war between the God and Demon Races.
• Artemis questioned Sela about her unusual actions and her interest in the Divine Realm, but Sela said she would not reveal the Demon Race’s affairs.
• Sela assured Artemis that her plans would not threaten peace, then declared that Shien belonged to the Demon Race and that none would take him away.

The leaders of the God Race, Demon Race, and human race prepared to attend the Three Races talks at the Hall of Glory, while anticipating trouble from the Old Demon Faction and Shien. Shien departed for the meeting with Lilith and Shafna as the talks drew near.

• Leaders and delegations arrived at the Hall of Glory, where the inner seating was reserved for the most powerful figures of each race.
• Lidas gathered Anima, Nadula, twenty higher-ranking goddesses, Artemis, and Merika at the World-Crossing Gate and led them toward the Human Realm.
• Sister Sela confirmed that the Demon Lords had secured their territories, then departed with Liel, Kamina, Milu, and Aiyi, leaving their guards behind.
• Shien left Yulin at House Poztut to protect it and set off for the Hall of Glory with Lilith and Shafna.

The leaders of the major human factions gathered in the Kingdom of Mithra for the talks between the Three Races, with Ria making her debut as Mithra’s heir. The Goddesses and Six Great Demon Lords arrived, leaving the venue tense as old enemies faced one another and the Hero’s side remained to appear.

• Harvis, Misgi, and the other leaders of the major human factions arrived and took their places on the platform, where they greeted one another and tested their relationships.
• Anxi arrived with Ria and Aridia, and the gathered leaders welcomed them as hosts; Capeline asked why Roxie was absent, and Anxi said Roxie was busy welcoming her fiancé and the Goddesses.
• Anxi opened the ceiling and summoned the assembled magic power, and Lidas, Anima, Nadula, and the other Gods descended before the human factions knelt and greeted them.
• The Six Great Demon Lords—Sela, Shafna, Lide Doma, Kamina, Miru Pesh, and Aiyi—descended into the venue, drawing hostile stares from former enemies.
• The arrival of the Demon Lords made the atmosphere sharply tense as the factions confronted old rivals and waited for the Hero’s side.

Shien arrived at the Three Races' talks and used the Holy Sword to announce that he had returned peacefully, though he would defend himself if provoked. Before the talks began, Sera and Lidas exchanged solemn oaths that their races had no intention of starting a war, and Anxi opened the meeting.

• The Six Great Demon Lords arrived, and the Goddesses confronted them over their old grudges until Yule, Iris, Anima, and Nadula intervened.
• Shafna announced that Shien had arrived, and he appeared above the venue with Roxie and Lilith.
• Shien raised the Holy Sword so its light spread across the capital, then planted it in the center of the Hall of Glory and declared his peaceful intentions.
• Sera stated that the Demon Race had not caused the Hero Summon, and she swore upon the Demon King that her people would not break the peace.
• Lidas swore upon the Supreme God that the God Race had not activated the Hero Summon to target the Demon Race, and Anxi began the talks.

Shien sat with the Demon Race at the Three Races meeting, making clear he would not be bound by expectations tied to being a Hero. The meeting began with the question of who had restarted the Hero Summon, and both the God Race and Demon Race denied responsibility.

• Shien joined the Demon Race's table, with Lilith and Roxie following him, and Roxie said she attended as his fiancée.
• Anxi opened the Three Races meeting and explained that Shien's unexpected appearance as a Hero raised the possibility that one of the races had restarted the sealed Hero Summon.
• Lidas, Anima, Nadula, and Artemis assured the assembly that the God Race had not restarted the Hero Summon.
• Sera and the other Demon Lords denied that the Demon Race had possessed or used the Hero Summon, arguing that such a ritual required Supreme God Omnis's power.
• Sera concluded that the Hero Summon had nothing to do with the Demon Race, and the assembly fell silent.

At the Three Races conference, Shien faced questions and accusations about who summoned him. He declared that he had been summoned to confront an enemy in Omnipotens and challenged the leaders to guess who it was.

• The leaders concluded that neither the God Race nor the demons were likely responsible for summoning the Hero, stirring discussion in the Hall of Glory.
• Nats suggested asking Shien directly who had summoned him, and Geura, the Beastmen warrior, sarcastically accused him of hiding a scheme.
• Shien warned Geura that he was considering using violence, while Nats cautioned that violence at the conference would be difficult to justify.
• Shien stood and said he would cooperate, explaining that he had been summoned to confront an enemy rather than start a war or take part in a conspiracy.
• Shien asked the gathered leaders to guess which enemy required a Hero to fight, and their expressions changed.

Shien explained that he had been summoned to oppose the Primal Demons’ plans to create a new Demon King and a seventh demonoid, then revealed that he had received the Supreme God’s Blessing. The revelation silenced the Hall of Glory, leaving the leaders and goddesses to reconsider pressing him about who summoned him.

• Shien told the gathering about the Primal Demons’ Second Demon King Creation Plan and Seventh Demonoid Creation Plan, with the demonoids confirming that a new Demon King could not be created but a seventh demonoid might be.
• Sela suggested that Shien had been summoned as a precaution against the possibility of a new Demon King, making him uneasy with her knowing look.
• Lidas asked who had summoned Shien, and he refused to name the one who had requested secrecy.
• Shien revealed that he had received the Supreme God’s Blessing when he was summoned, stunning the Human Race leaders and the Goddesses.
• Shien warned the gathering to think carefully before pursuing the matter further, then sat down as the Hall of Glory fell silent.

At the Three Races talks, Shien revealed that he had received the Supreme God's Blessing, using the revelation to discourage the factions from investigating his summoner. The God Race learned that Omnis had not visibly awakened, but its goddesses resolved to win Shien over and protect him.

• Anxi called an intermission so the factions could discuss Shien's revelation and consider its implications.
• Shien told the Demon Lords that invoking the Supreme God's name would deter others from pursuing the matter, and they agreed that the God Race would be especially shaken.
• The God Race's goddesses questioned the Three Great Goddesses, and Nadula confirmed that Shien truly was Omnis's Blessing Bearer.
• Anima and Nadula said they had seen no sign that Omnis had awakened or left the Sacred Realm, disappointing the goddesses.
• Artemis urged the God Race to win Shien over, and the goddesses agreed that they should support and protect him before the Demon Race could take him.

Anima and Nadula realized that Shien’s Supreme God blessing and close ties to the Demon Race meant the God Race could no longer simply watch over him from afar. Meanwhile, Nats and Geura reacted to the revelation by reaffirming their plans to oppose Shien and the existing order.

• Anima and Nadula agreed that the God Race needed to strengthen its ties with Shien after learning he bore Supreme God Omnis’s blessing.
• The Human Race leaders and Shien’s allies reacted with surprise, anger, or satisfaction, while many factions considered reaching out to him.
• Geura learned that Shien was Supreme God’s Blessing Bearer and complained that Nats had not told him, fearing the consequences of provoking him.
• Nats explained that he opposed Nadula’s favoritism toward the Elves and had gathered dissatisfied factions into a movement against the current order.
• Nats told Geura to keep pursuing their plans, saying they had support and still had a chance of winning.

The God and Demon Races argued over who would help Shien confront the Old Demon Faction, turning the conference into a fight over him. Meanwhile, Nien remained sealed away, and Laisha sensed that it was time to reclaim her power as darkness gathered around the royal capital.

• Sera, Lidas, Anima, Nadula, and the other leaders debated how the God and Demon Races should deal with the Old Demon Faction, with each side insisting Shien belonged with them.
• Roxie and Iris avoided helping their goddesses sway Shien, while the human faction leaders watched the conference devolve into an argument over him.
• Nien watched the conference through a spatial ripple and shouted at the Supreme God to release her from the seal, but the Supreme God refused.
• Nien recalled that Shien might eventually break the seal by mastering his awakened power, and resolved to claim him for herself when she got the chance.
• Nien sensed an approaching threat and warned Shien to be careful, while Laisha sensed the same change and said it was time to reclaim her power.
• Darkness began to close in on the royal capital.

As the Three Races conference continued, disguised intruders entered the royal capital and began transforming into beasts, setting chaos in motion. Anxi’s alarm signaled that the danger had reached the city, and Shien learned that the enemies he had anticipated had appeared.

• A cloaked adventurer named Raul entered the royal capital after registering at the gate, then slipped into an alley and transformed as a beast emerged from his body.
• Similar cloaked figures throughout the royal capital ruptured and revealed ferocious beast limbs, while muted roars rose from the alleys.
• In the Hall of Glory, the Goddesses and Demon Lords argued over recruiting Shien as the Human Race leaders watched, and Nats and Geura grew hostile toward him.
• Anxi’s pocket watch began flashing and spinning, so he sent Aridia away as Ria recognized the alarm and the gathered Human Race leaders took notice.
• Roxie told Shien that the intelligence he had provided had proved useful and confirmed that the intruders had appeared, prompting him to smile.

The human factions discovered and purged the beast nests planted in the royal capital, foiling the Old Demon Faction’s planned attack before it could fully begin. Burke realized his plan was compromised and ordered an immediate assault using higher-grade beast nests.

• Kingdom Knights sealed off remote areas of the royal capital while forces from the kingdom, empire, Beastmen, and Elves searched for and fought the beast nests.
• Roxie’s intelligence revealed that Burke of Hundred Beast's Lair used his Unique Skill to turn people into monster-filled hosts intended to cause chaos and disable the capital’s barrier.
• Anxi, Ria, and the other factions prepared defenses, and the capital’s modified barrier detected the beast nests when they activated.
• Aridia ordered the Royal Knights to exterminate every beast nest and prevent any from reaching the streets.
• Burke noticed that the beast nests were disappearing unusually quickly and ordered the other Old Demon Faction leaders to act immediately, sent agents to deactivate the barrier, and released higher-grade beast nests.

Burke’s infiltration plan failed when the kingdom exposed and captured his agents, so he persuaded the Old Demon Faction leaders to launch their Legendary-tier beast nests at the royal capital. He secretly planned to sacrifice the leaders as scapegoats and escape, while a meteor shower appeared on the horizon.

• Burke and the other Old Demon Faction leaders learned that the kingdom had exposed their infiltrators, captured them, and begun searching for the beast nests.
• Burke concluded that their plan had been leaked, but chose not to accuse the other leaders because he still needed them.
• Burke proposed releasing the weaker beast nests to distract the kingdom’s forces, then sending core personnel with Legendary-tier beast nests to attack the royal capital.
• Burke warned the leaders that they could not back out, invoking Sela and Lidas, and they agreed to proceed despite the danger.
• Burke secretly decided to use the leaders as scapegoats if the plan succeeded, while a meteor shower appeared across the horizon.

Shien, Roxie, and Lilith destroyed the Old Demon Faction leaders’ cave with a meteor shower, while a moonlit attack trapped the faction leaders gathered in the Hall of Glory. Danas and his hidden ally prepared to exploit the chaos as monsters advanced on the royal capital, leaving the city facing a broader assault.

• Burke sensed danger and fled the cave, but meteors struck and buried the Old Demon Faction leaders inside.
• The meteor shower alarmed the royal capital, and the leaders at the Hall of Glory ended their talks after noticing that Shien, Roxie, and Lilith had disappeared.
• A woman enveloped the Hall of Glory in moonlight and vanished, while Danas revealed that the attack was part of a plan to delay Shien.
• Danas watched a powerful figure and a horde of monsters approach the royal capital, with a chained shadow visible in the clouds, then departed with his ally.
• Shien, Roxie, and Lilith appeared over the ruined cave, and Roxie scolded Shien for leveling the area with Auroras Meteoric.

Shien defeated Burke, the leader of Hundred Beast's Lair, and burned his corpse along with the monsters inside him, seemingly ending the Old Demon Faction. As Shien and Roxie sensed an ominous threat and prepared to return to the Royal Capital, an unseen speaker stopped them.

• Shien found Burke alive beneath a monster corpse in the ruined area and identified him as the leader of Hundred Beast's Lair.
• Burke sent monsters from his body to attack Shien, then fled, while Lilith engulfed the attacking monsters in evil aura.
• Burke extracted the power of eleven Demonoid Larvae and charged Shien with strength beyond the Limit-tier.
• Shien used Cycle of Fate to overpower Burke with a single punch, killing him, then burned Burke's corpse and the monsters within it.
• Roxie told Shien that the Old Demon Faction's forces around the Royal Capital were being captured, but both of them felt an ominous premonition and decided to return.
• An unseen speaker told Shien, “That won't do, my Hero.”

Shien, Roxie, and Lilith encountered the real Danas, who revealed that he was an Apostle of the Stars and the son of the Primal Demon’s leader. After Danas escaped, Shien destroyed the four Limit-tier Combat Mages guarding him, but Danas remained at large.

• Shien and his companions discovered Danas, whom Shien had previously believed he killed in Cosmos, and learned the earlier victim had been a Magic Life double.
• Danas introduced himself as an Apostle of the Stars, a member of the Primal Demon, and the son of its leader.
• Shien tried to capture Danas, but one Combat Mage teleported away with him while the other three attacked Shien.
• Danas revealed that his four Combat Mages were Limit-tier Magic Lifeforms made from rare Demonoid Larvae and could share abilities and revive unless all were killed together.
• Shien dispersed the Combat Mages’ cursed lightning, bound all four, and tore them apart with Starry Arrays.

Shien defeated four Limit-tier Combat Mages while Danas escaped with a fifth, but Roxie and Lilith intercepted him. A Transcendent Class girl called the Queen Consort blocked Lilith’s attack and revealed that Roxie was her descendant.

• Shien easily crushed four Limit-tier Combat Mages, whose Symbiosis skill let them begin to revive before they were teleported away.
• Shien realized Danas had escaped with a fifth Combat Mage, while Roxie and Lilith pursued him.
• Danas met Roxie and Lilith in a distant forest and called on the Queen Consort when Lilith attacked with overwhelming evil energy.
• The Queen Consort used death energy to block Lilith’s attack, revealing herself as a Transcendent Class being.
• The Queen Consort told Roxie to consult the royal family genealogy and called her a descendant who carried that man’s bloodline.

Roxie recognized the girl battling Lilith as the mysterious Death Great Spirit Body behind Moro and suspected she was the surviving Princess of Ereii who founded the Mitra royal family. As the girl and Danas prepared to retreat before the Hero arrived, Roxie was left struggling with the possibility that her royal ancestor had survived and become an enemy of the world.

• Lilith unleashed her full power, and the girl answered with immense death aura, forcing Shien to halt his Teleportation and rush toward their battle.
• Roxie recognized the girl's power as that of the Great Spirit Body behind Moro and recalled that Moro had claimed descent from Ereii.
• Roxie remembered that Hero Mitra had taken Ereii's surviving princess as his maid and later married her, leading Roxie to fear the girl was the royal family's founding matriarch.
• The girl told Danas to retreat before the Hero arrived, and Danas agreed because his plan was ready to begin.

Danas escaped with the mysterious girl using the Colorless and Tasteless Unique Skill, preventing Roxie from tracking them. Shien returned to find the royal capital under attack by Demon Refining creatures, then faced Hermes, the leader of the Primal Demon.

• Danas used a vortex and the Colorless and Tasteless Unique Skill to escape with the girl and the Combat Mages, leaving Lilith and Roxie unable to find them.
• Shien comforted Roxie, then used Teleportation with Roxie’s authority to return with her and Lilith to the royal capital.
• Shien, Roxie, and Lilith found the capital besieged by Demon Refining creatures as Knights and other forces fought to defend it.
• Roxie charged into the city to protect her home, while an unseen force immobilized Shien and Lilith sensed a powerful enemy nearby.
• Hermes appeared above the royal capital, confronted Shien, and identified himself as the leader of the Primal Demon.

Shien confronted Hermes, who revealed that his thousand-year plan had unleashed armies on cities across the Human and Demon Realms while powerful leaders were trapped in a cage. After Hermes threatened to kill Shien, Shien drew the Holy Sword and prepared to fight him.

• Hermes identified Shien as a Hero summoned to interfere with his plan to become a complete Demonoid.
• Hermes revealed that armies of Demon Refining subjects and Demonoid Larvae were attacking cities across the Human and Demon Realms while the strongest defenders remained trapped.
• Hermes explained that his plan forced his enemies to choose between breaking free of the cage and saving the besieged cities.
• Hermes declared that Shien should die, and Shien condemned Hermes's hatred and released Lilith.
• Shien drew the Holy Sword and told Hermes that he would kill him.