Recaps

Shien confronted Hermes above the royal capital as Hermes summoned Magell to seize Lilith and unveiled the Demon Roar Chain. Shien survived Hermes’s attacks and emerged unharmed, while Magell and Lilith began fighting in the clouds.

• Shien told Lilith to enter the royal capital and protect Roxie, Yulin, and the others, but Hermes blocked her departure.
• Hermes summoned the Dragon of Demonic Might Magell, which wrapped its centipede tail around Lilith and dragged her into the clouds.
• Shien attacked Hermes with the Holy Sword, but Hermes used the Demon Roar Chain to deflect the strike and seal off space, preventing Shien from using Teleportation.
• Shien parried the chains’ attacks with exceptional swordsmanship, but Hermes trapped his ankle and blasted him with beams of magic power.
• As Magell and Lilith began fighting in the clouds, Hermes recognized Shien’s concealed Unique Skill, and Shien emerged from the explosion completely unharmed.

Shien taunted Hermes after surviving an amplified Demon Roar Chain attack, driving Hermes into a rage and prompting a devastating blast over the royal capital. The explosion scattered the defenders and civilians, while Shien’s fate remained unclear and the wider disaster continued.

• Hermes was stunned when Shien emerged uninjured from an attack amplified by the Demon Roar Chain, though Shien privately wondered why the attack had stalled before hitting him.
• Shien mocked Hermes’s unstable condition, his half-demonoid origins, and his betrayal of the Demon Race, provoking him into fury.
• Hermes poured vast magic power into the Demon Roar Chain and fired a massive beam at Shien, who stood still as it swallowed him.
• The beam’s explosion swept across the royal capital, damaging buildings and hurling civilians, knights, and monsters through the air.
• Aridia braced against the blast, Tilly was swept away, and Carol grabbed Geno as the Elf Division was scattered.
• Aridia looked toward the sky and the Hall of Glory in concern, unaware that upheaval had also struck the Human Realm and Demon Realm.

House Poztut repelled a major assault by Primal Demon apostles and their forces, with Yulin and the household’s defenders overwhelming the attackers. Raul was left facing an elf girl whose power surpassed his own, and a rain of fire swallowed him.

• Primal Demon forces attacked the royal palace, temple, noble houses, and House Poztut while battles spread across the capital.
• Yulin descended as a black dragon and destroyed Demonoid Larvae and demon-refined with her Dragon Breath.
• Seven Legendary-tier experts from House Poztut charged out and killed two Demonoid Larvae, while the household’s fighters slaughtered the envoys and demon-refined.
• Raul and the other apostles failed to break through House Poztut’s defenders, including a dual-blade wielder and a girl with a greatshield.
• An elf girl confronted Raul with power greater than his, and her rain of fire swallowed him.

Roxie arrived at the Hall of Glory and discovered that Demon Lord power had sealed away its powerful occupants. She attacked the barrier with the Holy Sword, but first cut down a swarm of monsters, prompting the Old Demon Faction to send its army after her.

• Roxie saw the moonlit barrier around the Hall of Glory and realized it had imprisoned the leaders and powerful beings inside.
• The Holy Sword confirmed that the barrier carried the Demon Lord's power, and Roxie decided to try breaking it with the sword.
• Roxie unleashed a Magic Sword strike, then redirected it to destroy several Demonoid Larvae and countless alchemical demons attacking her.
• The human factions cheered as the Old Demon Faction's apostles realized Roxie was far stronger than they had expected.
• The apostles ordered the monsters to attack Roxie again as she prepared to face the army alone.

Hermes prepared to merge with Magell, believing his invasion would let the unstable Half-Demonoid reach its peak, but Shien survived Hermes’s attack unharmed. The Demon Roar Chains then broke free from Hermes and gathered around Shien, accepting his magic power.

• Hermes stabilized his declining aura and watched Magell fight in the clouds, explaining that their opposing constitutions would let them become a complete Demonoid once Magell reached its peak.
• Hermes dismissed Shien as already dead and attacked him with the Demon Roar Chains, but Shien emerged from the explosion completely uninjured.
• Shien recalled that the chains’ attack had dispersed before hitting him and sensed that the weapon felt close to him.
• When Shien called the chains toward him, they broke free from Hermes and gathered around Shien.
• Hermes felt his magical bond with the Demon Roar Chains sever, while the weapon began connecting to Shien’s magic power.

Shien took control of Hermes's Demon Roar Chain and unleashed its full power, leaving Hermes buried beneath a shattered mountain. The chain chose to remain with Shien, but a terrifying roar from the sky interrupted him.

• Hermes charged at Shien after the Demon Roar Chain abandoned him and acknowledged Shien as its master.
• Shien poured his magic power into the Demon Roar Chain, which proved far more powerful in his hands than it had been with Hermes.
• The Demon Roar Chain flung Hermes into a mountainside and devastated the surrounding area with a storm of chains.
• The Demon Roar Chain entered Shien's body and settled there, allowing him to summon it whenever he needed it.
• A frenzied roar echoed from the sky, and Shien looked up in alarm.

Shien faced the newly freed Dragon of Demonic Might Magell, a Transcendent Class monster whose Dragon Breath threatened to destroy the royal capital. After Shien wounded Magell with the Holy Sword, Lilith joined the battle, and Shien began another spell.

• A colossal creature resembling a Demonoid Larva appeared above the royal capital, and Roxie identified it as Magell, the Dragon of Demonic Might.
• Magell's Demon Roar Chain restraints shattered, and Shien realized the chain had once been used by Hermes to control the mindless monster.
• Magell targeted Shien with devastating Dragon Breath, but Shien used Cycle of Fate and Enchantment: Annihilation to weaken it before striking it with the Holy Sword.
• Lilith attacked Magell with a torrent of evil energy, and Shien began chanting another spell.

Shien and Lilith battered Magell while the defenders of the royal capital counterattacked, and Roxie used her authority over fate to erase the attacking forces. After exhausting herself, Roxie shattered the veil surrounding the Hall of Glory, where powerful auras began to emerge.

• Shien unleashed Auroras Meteoric and Starry Arrays, and he and Lilith relentlessly attacked Magell.
• Inspired by Shien and Lilith, Aridia, Carol, Geno, the knights, and other defenders fought back against the demon-forged creatures.
• Roxie used her fate authority to make the demon-forged creatures, Demonoid Larvae, Apostles, and Messengers vanish throughout the royal capital.
• After her power peaked and began to fade, Roxie used her remaining strength to slash apart the silver veil covering the Hall of Glory.
• Powerful auras rose from inside the Hall of Glory, and Roxie collapsed from exhaustion.

Shien and Lilith wore down Dragon of Demonic Might Magell with relentless attacks until Shien could strike its heart with the Holy Sword. Magell’s life force vanished, bringing the battle to an end.

• Shien and Lilith exploited Magell’s poor mobility, dodging its Dragon Breath while attacking and gradually injuring it.
• Shien and Lilith destroyed one of Magell’s wings, causing the dragon to crash to the ground.
• Magell struggled to rise and continued attacking, so Shien declared that it had to vanish and prepared to finish the fight.
• Lilith knocked aside Magell’s swiping hand, giving Shien an opening to plunge the Holy Sword into its chest.
• Sacred light spread through Magell and reached its heart, causing its life force to disappear.

Shien and Lilith killed Dragon of Demonic Might Magell, but Hermes used Shadowless Form and a hidden monster army to buy time to absorb Magell's remains and become a complete Demonoid. As Hermes declared himself a Demon Lord, six powerful auras appeared and suppressed him.

• Shien destroyed Magell with the Holy Sword while Lilith helped bring down the monster.
• Hermes appeared using Shadowless Form and began absorbing Magell's fragments to complete his Demonoid body.
• A hidden army of alchemical demons and Demonoid Larvae attacked Shien and Lilith, delaying them while Hermes swallowed the fragments.
• Hermes transformed into a complete Demonoid, gained power comparable to a Demon Lord, and proclaimed himself Demon Lord Hermes.
• A cold voice asked, "Is that so?" as six auras as powerful as Hermes's appeared and locked onto him.

The six Demon Lord sisters confronted Hermes and attacked him for imprisoning them and bringing chaos to the world. Hermes escaped several attacks with his semi-corporeal body, but Aiyi's Dragon Breath vaporized him, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Shafna, Lid, Kamina, Milu, Aiyi, and Sera surrounded Hermes and declared that he would pay for what he had done.
• Hermes demanded to know how the Demon Lords had escaped so quickly, but Shafna answered with an attack.
• Milu struck at Hermes from behind as Shafna's phantoms attacked, but their blows passed through his semi-corporeal body.
• Kamina poisoned Hermes through the air, and he forced the poison from his body before fleeing the contaminated area.
• Lid attacked Hermes with a colossal beast's hoof, but Hermes used Dragon of Demonic Might Magell's Dragon Breath to deflect it.
• Aiyi transformed into the Dragon King and engulfed Hermes in Dragon Breath, vaporizing him without leaving remains.

Shien and the Demonoids learned that Hermes had escaped their assault after losing an arm and a leg, but Sera had secretly poisoned him before he fled. Kamina explained that the poison would silently spread through Hermes’s magic power and body, leaving his death certain unless he discovered it in time.

• The Demonoid Sisters gathered after Hermes escaped Aiyi’s Dragon Breath and Sera’s attack, leaving behind an arm and a leg.
• Shien realized Sera had anticipated Hermes’s escape and had struck him while he tried to flee using Shadowless Form.
• Sera revealed that she had coated her hand with poison borrowed from Kamina and pierced Hermes’s abdomen before removing his limbs.
• Kamina explained that her latent poison blended into magic power, spread throughout the body, and would eventually erupt alongside a loss of control.
• Kamina declared that Hermes was doomed unless he noticed and removed the poison early.

Hermes survived his defeat and planned to recover, rebuild his forces, and take revenge on the Demonoids and the Hero. Before he could escape, poison secretly delivered by Sera began destroying his body, and an unseen speaker told him his time was over.

• Hermes landed gravely wounded beneath a secluded cliff outside the royal capital and cursed the six Demonoid sisters for defeating him.
• Hermes planned to heal, adapt to his complete Demonoid body, rebuild his forces, and reclaim his test subject and Demon Roar Chain.
• Hermes began to flee, but his magic erupted out of control and his body started to rot and fail.
• Hermes realized he had been poisoned and blamed Kamina, unaware that Sera had secretly applied the poison she had obtained from her.
• Hermes panicked as the poison threatened to kill him before he could pursue his ambitions, and an unseen speaker said he was destined to exit the stage.

Danas confronted his defeated father, Hermes, at a hidden passage to the Demon Realm and revealed that he had planned to betray him. As Danas tortured Hermes, he exposed that Hermes had used his biological children as material to create Magell, then demanded to know how many siblings Hermes had sacrificed.

• Danas found Hermes near a hidden passage to the Demon Realm, which he had predicted Hermes would use to escape.
• Hermes ordered Danas to save him, but Danas pierced his chest and reminded him that he had said Hermes would die there.
• Danas explained that Hermes had treated him as expendable and that he had sought the Queen Consort's help in preparing to betray him.
• Hermes realized Danas had planned to turn against him, and Danas revealed that Hermes had intended to sacrifice him after Magell was complete.
• Danas explained that Hermes had used his biological children to cultivate Magell and demanded to know how many of his siblings Hermes had sacrificed.

Danas revealed that he had spent years arranging Hermes’s defeat so he could devour his father and become the Seventh Demonoid. After succeeding, he announced his next plan: resurrecting the Demon King and awakening the world’s ancient history.

• Danas explained that Hermes had used his children as sacrifices and had sent him to die against Shien, while Danas had secretly planned to turn the tables on his father.
• Danas revealed that he had helped arrange Shien’s identity being exposed and the Three Races Conference so Hermes would face powerful enemies and become vulnerable.
• Hermes pleaded for mercy, but Danas declared that he would devour him and become the Seventh Demonoid.
• Danas emerged from the cliff transformed, and the Queen Consort recognized that he had succeeded.
• Danas told the Queen Consort that he intended to discover the world’s true truth and announced his plan to resurrect the Demon King, awakening ancient history and beginning the ancient war again.

Laisha found a dying demon woman who had wielded the Demon Lord’s power as a barrier and explained that she could save her by reclaiming it. Laisha began taking back the power, leaving the woman alive and free to choose her own path.

• Laisha followed a guiding force through the outskirts of the royal capital and found a demon woman near death, surrounded by destructive moonlight-like power.
• Laisha healed the woman enough for her to wake and identified herself, then explained that the woman’s power was running out of control after she used it as the Demon Lord’s Barrier.
• Laisha revealed that she had been created as a Demon Lord Candidate using the Demon Lord’s power, which the Primal Demons later extracted and used in experiments.
• Laisha explained that reclaiming the power would prevent the Primal Demons from creating more beings like them and reached toward the moonlight.
• Laisha told the woman she had survived and urged her to live freely without letting anyone use her again.

After the Primal Demons’ attack on the royal capital was defeated, Shien surveyed the devastation and learned that war still raged elsewhere in the Human and Demon Realms. He remained in the capital to guard it, then comforted Roxie as she mourned the destruction of her home and recalled an earlier attack.

• The Three Great Goddesses, the Goddess of Justice, and the Three Goddesses of Time and Space joined the battle, and the defenders exterminated the artificial demons and Demonoid Larvae while killing or capturing the Primal Demons’ forces.
• Shien surveyed the ruined royal capital as its survivors, wounded, and dead were tended to and the city’s people were led to safety.
• The leaders and forces of the Human Realm and Demon Realm returned to their homelands to fight the ongoing invasions, while Lidas, Anima, and Nadula sent Goddess legions from the Divine Realm to reinforce them.
• Anxi and Ria kept Shien in the royal capital to guard against Hermes or Old Demon Faction remnants returning, while Lilith and the Elves also stayed to help.
• Shien took Roxie’s hand and asked if she was all right, and Roxie said her weakness had faded before recalling how the capital had suffered during the Slayer Faction’s invasion ten years earlier.

Roxie shared her grief over the royal capital’s destruction with Shien, who helped her turn from regret toward what came next. Danas then announced to all of Omnipotens that the reborn Primal Demons and their allies were declaring war on the Three Great Goddesses and Six Great Demon Lords.

• Roxie told Shien that the bloodshed she witnessed as a child had made her work to prevent the royal capital from suffering another disaster.
• Roxie admitted she wished she had fought Hermes, and Shien reminded her that freeing the powerful figures trapped in the Hall of Glory had helped end the battle and reduce casualties.
• Shien embraced and kissed Roxie, then urged her to stop blaming herself and focus on what would happen next; Roxie regained her resolve.
• Danas spoke to every sentient being in Omnipotens, denouncing the Old Demon Faction’s past and the world’s existing order.
• Danas declared war on the Three Great Goddesses and Six Great Demon Lords in the name of a new peace-seeking alliance.

As refugees fled to the royal capital of the Kingdom of Mithra, the Hero saved them from a Demonoid Larva with a single strike of the Holy Sword. He then looked out over a world engulfed in battle and questioned the mission people expected him to fulfill.

• Knights organized refugees arriving at the royal capital and drove back a group of Demonoids with coordinated attacks and magic.
• A Demonoid Larva appeared and attacked the crowd with Dragon Breath, but the Hero cut through the breath and killed the monster with the Holy Sword.
• The knights told the refugees that the Hero had saved them, and the refugees cheered and hoped he would restore peace.
• The Hero rose above the royal capital and saw monsters, knights, and demons fighting across the frozen land.

A month after Danas declared war on every faction, the New Primal Demon’s betrayals, world-sealing attacks, and vast armies plunged Omnipotens into a global conflict. The Kingdom of Mithra remained the Human Realm’s last major stronghold as Shien and the others waited for contact with the Demon Realm and the Divine Realm to be restored.

• Danas’s New Primal Demon gained support from Geura, Nats, human nations, demon factions, and traitors among the God Race, splitting humanity and isolating the Human Realm from the Demon Realm and Divine Realm.
• The New Primal Demon unleashed Magic Life and undead armies alongside the alchemy demons, defeating the Ragna Empire, destroying Lalabay, and attacking the Elven Village.
• Danas and a mysterious death-energy expert severely wounded Nadula and Artemis, but Lidas and Anima arrived and drove them back before the Elven Village fell.
• Over the following month, the New Primal Demon continued attacking across the Human Realm while leaving the Kingdom of Mithra untouched, and Shien stayed there to defend its rebuilt Royal Capital.
• Lidas, Anima, and Nadula urged the kingdom to hold out while they worked to restore the Gate of the God Race and establish contact with the Demon Realm.

Shien returned to House Poztut after defeating a Demonoid Larva and found Lasha waiting for him, now serving as his maid after Laisha transferred her ownership. As Lasha reported on the Royal Capital’s wartime situation, she said she believed she would see Laisha again, while hinting that Shien shared a deeper connection with both sisters.

• Shien returned to his room after defeating a Demonoid Larva, where Lasha revealed she had been waiting for him since he was asleep.
• Shien left with Lasha and saw that her return had improved House Poztut, while its knights and servants greeted her more enthusiastically than him.
• Lasha reported that the Royal Capital had repelled four attacks, arranged housing for refugees, and was managing its food supplies for the time being.
• Shien recalled that Laisha had transferred Lasha’s ownership to him after disappearing following the Battle of the Royal Capital.
• Shien asked whether Lasha was forcing herself to serve him, and Lasha said she trusted Laisha’s reasons and expected to meet her again.
• Lasha told Shien that their connection went beyond master and servant, leaving him with the sense that he would soon learn the truth.

Shien visited Merika in House Poztut’s garden and teased her after she returned from the Divine Realm as a Limit-tier mage. He learned she was training to control her growing magic power, then carried her to a pavilion and continued to dote on her.

• Lasha understood Shien wanted to visit Merika and arranged for the household to gather for breakfast in thirty minutes.
• Shien found Merika praying in the garden as she refined her magic power, and caught her when she stumbled.
• Shien teased Merika and learned she had reached Limit-tier through Nadula’s blessing and now wielded the Staff of Nature.
• Shien recalled that Merika had killed a Primal Demon apostle during the battle for the royal capital, helping House Poztut lead the counterattack.
• Merika explained that the flower crown continued to draw magic power into her, so Nadula had instructed her to practice controlling it.
• Shien carried the embarrassed Merika to a pavilion and continued teasing her.

Shien reflected on the war’s toll as he comforted Merika, whose blessing and training had made her an exceptionally powerful nature mage. He continued subjugating Demonoid Larvae near the royal capital, while Nadula kept Merika there as a reserve for the Elves, and the goddesses prepared to seize the initiative from the New Primal Demon.

• Shien learned that Merika had mastered nature magic and reached Limit-tier after receiving Nadula’s blessing.
• Shien considered how Merika’s strength compared with his other companions, while Tier trained harder to keep up.
• Merika asked whether Shien had gone outside the city to subjugate Demonoid Larvae, and he explained that few others could truly purify them.
• Merika worried about the Elven Village, and Shien learned Nadula had sent her back to the royal capital so she could support the Elves or preserve their hope if the village fell.
• Shien sensed that the goddesses were making plans to reclaim the initiative after the New Primal Demon’s string of victories.

Shien grew increasingly impatient with the God Race and kingdom’s passive response to the New Primal Demon, and considered going into battle on his own. At breakfast with his companions, he reaffirmed his resolve to protect their peaceful daily life.

• Shien reflected on the New Primal Demon’s victories, the threat to the Ragna Empire and Iris, and his frustration at being told to wait before entering the war.
• Shien told Merika that Nadula and Artemis would protect the Elven Village, then went with her to breakfast.
• Shien learned Tier had continued hunting alchemic demons and training to become strong enough to defeat Aridia.
• Lasha served breakfast to Shien, Merika, Vivian, Lumya, Tier, and Lilith at House Poztut.
• Shien watched his companions share a peaceful meal and silently vowed to protect their daily life.

Shien went to the royal palace while an unknown Evil God infiltrated House Poztut and tried to take Lilith and Lasha. The intruder urged Lilith to lead the Evil Gods, but Lilith did not understand its speech.

• Shien left for the royal palace using Teleportation.
• A black, smoke-like intruder entered House Poztut and found Lilith in her room with Lasha.
• Lilith shielded Lasha from the intruder's malice, and the intruder recognized Lasha as the Demon Lord Candidate.
• The intruder said it had come for Lilith and Lasha, then urged Lilith to join the Evil Gods and lead them against the Goddesses and mortals.
• The intruder rested a hand on Lilith's shoulder, but Lilith tilted her head in confusion, leaving it frozen.